Re: Ada-Oriented GUI

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 4:49:39 AM UTC-5, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
> On 19/03/18 15:10, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> > I will need to take a portion of that back; there was some initial attempt at an RxAda that was reported last year:
> > 
> > https://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~blieb/AE2017/presentations/RxAdaSlidesShort.pdf
> > 
> > Perhaps this initial foray into an RxAda by Alejandro Mosteo is a starting point, or at least a prior reference to critique.
> 
> RxAda is right now somewhat down in my stack of priorities, but actually 
> a demo over GtkAda/Gnoga is among the things I want to attempt sooner or 
> later.
> 
> Álex.

I was hoping that you would reply to this thread.  Thank you, for the reply and for all your valuable & appreciated work on RxAda.  (Comp.lang.ada is more exciting when principle people contribute their expertise regarding fresh trends in Ada, rather than merely students seeking to cheat on their homework/test questions.) Is RxAda released publicly?  If not yet, might RxAda be released publicly as part of that GtkAda/Gnoga demonstration?

Also, (other than lack of free time) what has been the biggest obstacle to your development of RxAda?  Ada lacks lambdas/anonymous-subroutines but even the RxJava community sometimes prefers named methods over lambdas in app-domain code that utilizes RxJava, even in the latest versions of Java that have full-fledged lambdas in the language now.  What other language features or lack there of in Ada cause concern in your development of RxAda?  Have you envisioned language features unique to (current or future) Ada that would allow RxAda to go beyond the state of the art in the Rx libraries for all the other languages?