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by inetsee 3693 days ago
Ada has been used a great deal in the past for military applications, including flight control software for military planes. One of the real advantages of Ada is that there are a number of tools designed to make sure that Ada programs are about as safe as it is possible to make software.

I can't help wondering if some of the problems the F-35 is having is because its software development is being done mostly in C++ and C.

Unfortunately, I would be really surprised if there is an Ada toolchain that can produce code for a microcontroller like the ESP8266.

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