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  • Zak@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    We do have an equivalent to Ada. It’s Ada. The open source GNAT compiler is actively maintained. Eiffel, too has a maintained open source implementation, but with a weird one-year release delay (probably not a big deal with a 40 year old language).

    If you’re not choosing them for your own projects, then you are part of what you perceive to be the problem. You probably have a good reason, like lack of libraries or general inconvenience compared to popular modern languages. That’s fine; maximizing safety over velocity is the right call for avionics and safety-critical public infrastructure control systems, not the average software project.