From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: What can Ada do to survive Big Tech's war-on-portability?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:10:58 +0200
Date: 2019-08-14T23:10:58+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qj1td0$1tbn$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
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On 2019-08-14 22:12, Optikos wrote:
> It seems that Ada suffers from Big-Tech titans' war-on-portability as much as C++.
No, Ada code is perfectly portable.
> What can be done to preserve the mantra of write-once portability as a laudable goal in this war-on-portability era?
Nothing. The key problem lies in the third party libraries which are
intentionally or due to honest incompetence suffer from incompatible
changes and dropping support. Changing language to Ada helps a lot, e.g.
there is no problem with tasking, but other libraries, lots of, are
still there.
Using a "native" language for each target will do things only worse. The
big tech will keep on playing its dirty games, changing APIs, inventing
other "native" languages etc.
Commercial vendors can do nothing. Big tech's policy is to keep them
under the thumb. If they cannot they buy and then kill them anyway.
Non-commercial authors should simply ignore worst of big tech until they
come to senses. Eventually some of them do.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2019-08-14 20:12 What can Ada do to survive Big Tech's war-on-portability? Optikos
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