Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

From: Jeremy <jer_AT_jer.cx>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:19:32 -0700

On 04/19/21 04:19PM, Greg Reagle wrote:
> Okay, I did. Very interesting. I briefly studied Ada many years ago. Do you think that Ada is a viable alternative to Rust? Do you think it is a decent alternative to C for things like operating systems or utilities like sbase or ubase?
>
> I made a Hello World program in Ada. Very fast and small. However, it depends on libgnat-8.so.1. Is there a way to build it so that it does not? Like statically linked?
>

What does Ada(or Rust for that matter) do better than C?

Surely, you have all of the tools for static analysis, debugging, macros
for C that you would for any other language, no?

I could understand generics, interfaces, iterators, OOP and all of that
from a masturbatory standpoint, but that aspect aside, what utility do
these provide over C?

Jeremy
Received on Tue Apr 20 2021 - 03:19:32 CEST