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Tooling is pretty good; Ada has a package manager similar to Cargo (Alice: https://alire.ada.dev ), and you can install it pretty easily via GetAda ( https://getada.dev ), which brings in the compilers and any libraries you'd need. (disclaimer: I'm the author of GetAda) Desktop apps: definitely. There's bindings for various UI toolkits like GTK and I know of a few people working on games in Ada, usually thick bindings like SDL: https://github.com/ada-game-framework and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn3eTxaOtL2Oxl9HbNOhI... There's also Gnoga, which is similar to Electron for writing UI apps: https://github.com/Blady-Com/gnoga A bunch of libraries for various drivers or other useful things on https://alire.ada.dev/crates.html (to include something like "ada_gui" in your ada project, you would just use alire, e.g. `alr with ada_gui

I'm far from an expert on compiler development, but I think it's just a matter of walking the AST to ensure that there aren't any calls to procedures with the Global or Nonblocking aspects inside a parallel block. The bigger issue is that the `parallel do` and `parallel for` blocks added in Ada 2022 [1] haven't been implemented and as far as I know, nobody's working on it. I suspect that if we ever do get parallel support, it'll come from the GNAT-LLVM project [2], rather than GNAT-GCC. In the meantime, there's a CUDA compiler [3]. [1] http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22over/Ada2022-Overview.pd... [2] https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm [3] https://github.com/AdaCore/cuda

>GNAT, the free software Ada implementation, uses the GCC backend so it is pretty good: GNAT also has LLVM Backend: https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm It's stable and Adacore plans to ship it in GNAT Pro 24, i.e. next release. Note that it's the same front-end, so you get best of both worlds basically.

The GCC Ada frontend is written in Ada: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GNAT There is also a port of the Ada frontend to LLVM backend: https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm

Arguments against DragonEgg are laid out in the gnat-llvm repo here: https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm/blob/master/README.drag...