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alby.gamper@gmail.com writes:
> Thanks for the feedback!, Let me wait for some further feedback from
> the Ada community, so I can ascertain the extent of the interest in
> this piece of work.

No problem.

> Note that I don't believe this as a competing library to the great work that
> AdaCore have done with "libadalang",

Libadalang also looks interesting!  I didn't know about it before.

> But an alternative to those use cases where the client application
> CANNOT easily be written in Ada (such as an Microsoft Visual Studio
> Plugin/Extension)

You can also use libadalang from C or Python, apparently.  I don't know
if that helps with Visual Studio.