Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:09:26 +0200, Patrick  
<patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> a écrit:

>> I hate to break this to you, but no *professional developer* cares what  
>> a
>> "hobbyist" needs for software development. AdaCore has made a lot of  
>> useful
>> things available, but all of those were developed for big, paying,
>> professional developers.
>
> I think this is exactly what is wrong with Ada and what needs to be  
> fixed or it will die.
Will die for whom? Not for every‑one, and certainly not for people to  
which it values enough. Note how the standard is in better health than  
that of some more widespread languages (just thing of what's broken with  
the switch to Python 3). In some way, it is less dying than some more  
noisy.

> I don't think we should look to private companies to solve our community  
> problems, they have to think of their own survival. My suggestions might  
> have been silly but can anyone, please, make a technical suggestion as  
> to what we could do as a community to make Ada more portable and/or  
> suitable for bare metal use ?
Always the same story as for many other things too… Could make things  
viable and valuable be an option too?


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