[pjmlp]

Many planes, trains, rockets and medical devices run on Ada.

There is more to commercial compilers than winning the benchmarks game.

[igouy]

For sure.

The benchmarks game is just an easily available source of examples.

Which, for instance, may show an Ada program with much the same measured time as a Rust program —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[Narishma]

Those things don't need to be particularly fast. What they need is consistent and predictable performance and resource usage.

[galangalalgol]

Planes trains and rockets have more sensors than ever and speed is very important.

[galangalalgol]

Most of my experience is embedded c++ but I have written ada rust and a fair bit of jovial73. Rust is a perfect fit for those same domains. Most o the things that ran Ada in the US have now switched to c++. Do178b certified safety critical c++ is a horrible thing to develop. I'm hoping rust comes in to fix that.

[pjmlp]

Sure, safe system programming languages should be seen as allies to the common goal of improving the quality of our IT stacks.