Ada 2022

tosh 124 points 24 comments March 06, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)

rustyhancock

My understanding is that most of Adas users are maintaining legacy systems. It'd be great to hear from anyone who is using it today by choice.

Danidada

In case anyone is curious about an overview of the actual changes: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22over/html/Ov22-TOC.html

phplovesong

Many ada devs probably write software i would not be comfortable writing. Its always been a kind of place i dont want to be part of.

johnisgood

If you want to learn Ada / SPARK, try https://learn.adacore.com/index.html .

antiquark

Ada doesn't even have a "++" operator to increment a number. SAD!

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