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Subject: Re: What can Ada do to survive Big Tech's war-on-portability?
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On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 21:12:04 UTC+1, Optikos  wrote:
> https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/08/the-not-so-hidden-cost-of-sharing-=
code-between-ios-and-android
>=20
> Dropbox has learned the hard way that the titans of Big Tech (e.g., Googl=
e, Apple, Microsoft) have erected semi-impermeable walls around their core =
technology that intentionally make portability difficult.  Although that pr=
ior sentence is semi-obvious for decades, what could Ada do differently hen=
ceforth to not suffer the above-linked article's same fate as C++ at Dropbo=
x?


1) Have Ada->JVM and Java bindings without GPLv3 generated code or RTS.

2) Have Swift bindings without GPLv3 generated code or RTS.

Good luck with that.