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by janderson3 2892 days ago
Ada as a language is super cool. It's tasking model is neat, and was built into the language in 1995. You can use arbitrary Enums to index arrays, it has bounded numerical types, it's just a neat language.

Ada's main drawbacks, aren't Ada's. It's that the US Army pushed it so hard, it's terminally "uncool." Also many people and organizations that use it are defense contractors, so being half-decent at Ada is seen as a "competitive advantage." This makes learning Ada a challenge. It's good to see that there are some more resources for learning Ada! I really wish that the learn.adacore.com was up a few years ago. I could have used it.