[glacia01]

>But the thing is, we're talking embedded here. Most ucontrollers I use have 8b address space, no MMU or any form of virtual memory, separated instruction/data bus (MVHA). That kind of thing don't play well with funky fat pointers.

You can definitely use Ada on 8bit microcontrollers, for example on 8bit AVR: https://docs.adacore.com/gnat_ugx-docs/html/gnat_ugx/gnat_ug...

You can make runtime as small as you want.

As for exceptions and threads: I mentioned them because thats what comes to mind first, there are more benefits obviously.