Interesting that Ada has an open source compiler. For whatever reason when I looked at it years ago I thought it was proprietary compilers only so I never really looked at it again. Maybe I’ll look again now.
Interesting that Ada has an open source compiler. For whatever reason when I looked at it years ago I thought it was proprietary compilers only so I never really looked at it again. Maybe I’ll look again now.
GNAT has been around for 30 years. There were some limitations with (one version of?) it due to it being released without the GPL runtime exception, which meant linking against its runtime technically required your programs to also be released under GPL. That hasn't been an issue for a very long time either, though.
GNAT has been around since the 90s, based on GCC. My university did some work on the compiler and used it for some undergrad courses like real-time programming. IIRC there was an attempt to use Ada for intro to programming courses, but I think they chose Pascal and then eventually C++.