Re: Real tasking problems with Ada.

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

On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 7:39:02 AM UTC-7, Lucretia wrote:
 
> You and I see Ada going in the same direction, Ada needs to and should be targetting massively multi-core/threaded systems. With 202x, I want to see this push such that parallel blocks can be compiled down to SPIR-V, for example. Or being able to compile a subprogam as a compute kernel, all within one language.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> parallel
>    ...
> and
>    ...
> end with
>    Compute; -- Offload to compute if available.

Example where massive multi-core/multi-threaded systems will be the way of the future: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?_mc=RSS%5FEET%5FEDT&doc_id=1331891&page_number=1

Sadly, languages like C and C++ will probably be used for such platforms since Ada is frowned upon by many. A safety critical use case that probably won't use a safety critical focused language like Ada... =(