From: alby.gamper@gmail.com
Subject: Re: the soul of a refreshed Ada momentum
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:59:59 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2019-03-22T16:59:59-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 8:17:54 AM UTC+11, Optikos wrote:
> This xlang might be a good platform for automated façade code generation in language m to •hijack• libraries in language n, so that m is not hampered by the lack of n’s rich trove of libraries, where most notably m=Ada and n∈{C,C++,C#,Rust,Go,Python,ObjectiveC,OCaml/Coq}
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> Many people nowadays seem to choose programming languages for the repertoire of libraries, not the core language. This xlang automated API/ABI projection might be a game-changer by divorcing library lock-in from choice of language, just as its core/predessor (C++/WinRT) did for C++ vis a vis C#. Think of xlang as a potential golden era of taking library lock-in shackles off.
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> Ada in the 2020s: the great hijacker language
An interesting set of articles on xLang can be found here
https://kennykerr.ca/
Alex
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