Post #2606470
2026-05-16 13:26 UTC
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@mana@woof.tech 2026-07-03 19:02
@techokami@woof.tech i have not learned more programming than the html and css units of freecodecamp and im interested in ada. been looking up internationally standardized languages and i dont understand why rust got popular over this (i do, its called corporate pr and money, but eh)
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@dgelessus@mastodon.social 2026-07-04 12:30
@techokami@woof.tech Has the bootstrapping and licensing situation improved recently? A few years ago, I tried to build an Ada codebase and needed a compiler. At the time, you had to be careful not to use AdaCore's GNAT-GPL because of the license restrictions, and more or less the only unrestricted GNAT builds were in Linux distro package repos. And since building GNAT requires an existing Ada compiler, other platforms were kind of screwed, unless you want to manually cross-bootstrap from Debian... :(