awesome-ada

1. Ask questions, and write down the answers in a way that you will find them again. Anki and spaced repetition is useful to learn the terminology or any info that isn't intuitive. 2. https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada has links to pretty much every Ada topic and resource; if you want to try Ada using open source tools, the best starting point is https://alire.ada.dev/docs/ 3. Compared to C/C++ I can't really think of any pitfalls. It requires more discipline and formal reasoning, but you will get used to it (and appreciate the lack of footguns, at least I did). Congrats and good luck.

What do you mean with "is the language open source"? The Ada specification is public [0] but not open source -- but the C and C++ specifications are not open source either, in the normal sense of the term. And like with C and C++, there are both open source and proprietary compilers for Ada, see e.g. [1] What's mostly not open source (FAFAIK) is SPARK, the formal verification framework for Ada. [0] https://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/standards/ada22/ [1] https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada#compilers

That's not quite true. There are multiple vendors providing Ada compilers to industry: https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada?tab=readme-ov-file#co...

I think, there are that same many ways to use Ada strings as C/C++. Ada and UTF-8 works very nice out of the box, it doesn't need any 3rd parties libraries (at least I never needed them and I use both each day :)). Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "lack of infrastructure"? About 3rd party libraries, that's true, Ada is far behind more popular languages but due to it nice binding capabilities it is not a problem to use C or C++ libraries in the Ada projects. About comp.lang.ada I can say too much, I don't spend much time there. To be honest I stopped using Usenet many years ago. Many people who can help you with Ada related problems are on Stack Overflow, Reddit or Gitter too. I think list here: https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada#Community is the best place to start to ask for help. And about the language popularity: as for someon

More links: https://www.adacore.com/uploads/books/pdf/AdaCore-Tech-Cyber... https://www.adacore.com/gems -> https://blog.adacore.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190709111613/http://www.drdobb... https://github.com/Componolit/libsparkcrypto https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk.craeynest/ada-belgium/ev... https://www.adacore.com/uploads/books/pdf/ePDF-Implementatio... http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913 https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada

learn.adacore.com (https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/index.html) and the Ada Programming wikibook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming) are pretty good tutorials that cover Ada including Ada 2012 features. I recently found this Awesome Ada list (https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada/blob/master/README.md) and have found it useful to discover libraries and frameworks written in Ada. With the increased interest in safe programming that Rust has stoked, I am hopeful that Ada might also find some renewed interest.