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Optikos <optikos@verizon.net> writes:
> I am sorry to hear that the hope for Ada being the 2nd language (not
> counting the Draconian SPARK variant) to achieve Rust's level of
> pointer safety has been abandoned.

http://www.ats-lang.org/ ?

> ...  Rust definitively won ... the world needs AdaSyntaxRustSemantics
> as a new language—with a catchier name.)

More like the other way around--syntax is superficial and Rust's
C-descended style is more popular these days.  But Ada still has many
semantic advantages.  Safe pointers do seem like a good thing to import
from Rust.