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by gavinray 1603 days ago
A lot of this has been much-improved with Ada 2022 and recent changes. Notably, lambdas, pattern matching, less-verbose operators, etc.

https://blog.adacore.com/going-beyond-ada-2022

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You say 'improved' but I feel it doesn't always go the 'more readable' way. I'm very much not a fan of the 'dot notation' and still like to use named parameters, and force explicit types instead of the creeping auto trend. I read much more code than I write and I'm feeling... not heard on the recent changes to ease code writing. At least I can write libadalang scripts (or langserv one day 'to right-click add back what I need in for-of loops, or dot-notation.