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by noir_lord 3345 days ago
I've always had a massive soft spot for Ada but I've never been able to find a use for it in actual work (not much call for it on the web).

I think the reason I like the language is the type system which is like the pascal one on steroids and I love Pascal, it was the language that taught me you could reason about a program by building up from primitives.
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steveklabnik 3345 days ago
> (not much call for it on the web)

Server-side stuff is a big focus of the upcoming year, so maybe then? :)

(I've been doing more of it lately and found it surprisingly pleasant)

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noir_lord 3344 days ago
The issue there isn't the language, Ada is lovely but that the surrounding infrastructure isn't there, it lacks widely used 'modern' libraries for a lot of stuff you take for granted in .Net/Java (even PHP) Land.

I'd love to be able to use it at some point and writing a web framework on top of it has been one of those fun if I ever have lots of spare time projects that sits in my queue.

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steveklabnik 3343 days ago
Yeah there's a ton of web frameworks so far, but with the new tokio stuff landing soon, I expect a lot of change!
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