Re: C# new features (v.7)

[Wesley Pan <wesley.y.pan@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 8:59:55 AM UTC-8, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> Many "modern" languages are adding "new" features, which are
> allready in Ada for 10's of years, Hummm.... May be Ada
> needs a better marketing department :)
> 
> --Nasser

What Ada really needs is to be used in fancy/cool/fun applications (e.g. games). Better marketing for the same old arguments of safety critical software, reduced development/maintenance cost, software integrity, etc (which are ALL still very important and worth promoting) doesn't capture the interest of the younger generation of software developers. It just turns them away, if not put them to sleep. (Projects like Gnoga are definitely a good start..)

I have no doubt that Ada's exposure to the masses would have been greatly helped if people could make iOS apps with Ada when iPhones first became popular. Still no iOS apps in Ada (as far as I know)... =( Yes, you can make Android apps, but are there any that will make the general mass go "Wow!". Also, iOS is more popular...

I REALLY wish I could be more proactive on this topic, but life responsibilities and reality continue to prevent me from allocating enough time to contribute anything to the Ada community...Maybe one day? Sigh...for now, I am stuck using an inferior one letter named language in a company full of anti-Ada software engineers...='(