[RavSS]

I think one of the reasons why someone might think it's hard to write code in Ada is its Pascal-style syntax and verbosity, which might give the false impression that it's an "outdated legacy language". I've written a few hobbyist projects in Ada (SPARK to be specific) during my spare time and now I greatly enjoy the language, but my very first impression of it wasn't enthusiastic (coming from a C background). I don't fully understand why Ada lacks popularity compared to Rust, outside of Rust having a more vibrant community.

[cb321]

Nim (https://nim-lang.org also mentioned elsethread) was largely inspired by trying to make a more concise Ada with Python-like lexical sensibilities/ergonomics and support for first class meta-programming. Compilers for Nim are sadly not as mature as things like say the gnat Ada compiler.