[gnarly]

Are we all just pretending that Ada doesn't exist now? It's type safe, thread safe, memory safe, overrun safe, a whole bunch of other sorts of safe. It was designed to accommodate huge projects. It has been used in major projects. It has an open source toolchain, and the unusual feature of a freely available ISO standard. And it has been around as long as C++. Yet not a word about it anywhere in the article.

[budman1]

Ada is proof that language selection is political or social, not based on technical merit. My opinion is Ada is a viable candidate language for use today, if you care about what it costs to develop or how long it takes. For over 20 years, the ada compiler and run time have been minimizing defects to a greater degree than any other language / run time. (Note: In my world, C++ has banished ada to the trash heap of 'legacy code', along with ton's of fortran. The C++ replacements are rarely equal; in perfection or in supportability)