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by Gustavo A. Hoffmann – Oct 28, 2024. Some time ago we announced updates to the learn website. Since then, we've published new contents to the Advanced Journey with Ada course, which we discuss today.
FOSDEM 2025 will have Ada room!
Quick update: I just received notification that our proposal for an Ada DevRoom has been accepted! More info is expected shortly.
Alire v2.0.2 release
What's Changed (excerpt) fix: set up environment during build preparations (#1766) fix: ability to pin a crate that 'provides' a dependency (#1771) fix: early error on Windows with msys2 disabled (...
Ironclad received an nlnet grant!
Dear community, it fills me with joy to announce that Streaksu, the developer of Ironclad has been given a grant from the nlnet foundation, announcement here. If you would like to learn more about Ironclad and the Gloire distribution, Streaksu presented the project during AEiC 2024. You can find t...
I am very happy to see that Streaksu applied for a grant and was accepted. This is what I want to see more of in the community. People creating very cool projects that they enjoy working on. Then promoting them and seeing if they can make the development of such projects a little bit more sustainable for themselves. This also disproves that “Ada projects” are not liked or as seen as old by foundations or other funding groups.
I am very happy for Streaksu and I hope to test Ironclad in a RISC-V board soon!
Dear Ada community, as some of you may know (since you attended the Ada Monthly Meetup), I want to open a discussion about FOSDEM and whether we should ask for an specific Ada DevRoom. In the following month it is likely that FOSDEM will once again open the submission for stands and DevRooms. Ther...
by Quentin Ochem – Sep 26, 2024. At AdaCore, we’re in the business of supporting people who develop high-integrity software, in particular for embedded systems. In terms of programming languages, this means supporting the most commonly found candidates, which in 2024 include C/C++, Ada/SPARK, and…
by Olivier Henley – Sep 19, 2024. As part of the AdaCore GNAT Academic Program, Capstones offers senior higher education students the opportunity to take on challenging and exciting engineering projects within a high-integrity technology and culture framework. As we begin a new academic year, with…
by Fabien Chouteau – Sep 12, 2024. In April 2024 a streamer named Tsoding developed a video game from start to finish in Ada in 20 days. He seemed to have enjoyed the experience, to the point where he says that Ada will be the next trendy programming language for game development. Ignoring the…
YouTube: Ada Monthly Meetup - September 2024
We just finished the Ada Monthly Meetup and here are the topics that were discussed:
- The recording of the presentations given during the Ada Developers Workshop 1 with their slides are now available
- Stemming from (@jgrivera67) J. German Rivera’s talk about HiRTOS and him working the Renode hardware emulation tool, @ohenley did a nice article about getting started with Renode and Ada programs! Check it out!
- And actually, since the last stable version of Renode, v1.15.2, released 3 weeks ago, there is a built-in demo/example of HiRTOS!
- @simonjwright created a PR for SVD2Ada for it to support dimensioned register ports!
- @Max has been working on creating an Ada toolchain for the XTENSA architecture. It is now officially part of Alire! Check the forum post for more info.
- A reminder that the Ada Crate of the Year Award is still taking place!
- We had a discussion on whether there should be a proposal for an Ada Devroom for next year’s FOSDEM.
- There will be a forum thread about this topic “shortly”.
- With the “demise” of SIGAda, the proposal of the creation of the Ada Users Society is moving along, which was approved in the General Assembly (GA) of Ada-Europe this past month of June.
- The next GA of Ada-Europe will be taking place in a couple of weeks, the next 26th of September. Remember to ask for the meetup link if you would like to join!
- We had a couple of discussions during the meetup and afterwards regarding some doubts and timeline/availability of the new Ada Users Society.
- A complete working Alire manifest has been created for the WolfSSL library 2.
- Though it is not in Alire’s index! It still needs some work, but you can already start using it!
- @stcarrez and @Max have been working on Ada-Enet, an embedded network stack written in Ada.
- It is now available in Alire and it has a few STM32 drivers already!
- @Max also has an ethernet stack written in Ada, which has also been added ot Alire
- @simonjwright updated us on the state (and struggles) of the Ada support on the newly released RP 2350 CPU 1.
- Progress is good and small examples are already running on the chip. Interrupts are still a problem to be solved :slight_smile:
- @AJ-Ianozi reminded us about the latest Yet Another Static Site (Generator) and its features, which recently had its 3.1.0 release
That is all that was discussed today!
by Olivier Henley – Sep 05, 2024. I recently watched the talks from the 28th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2024), which was held in Barcelona last June. One talk that stood out was "HiRTOS: a Multicore RTOS Written in SPARK Ada" by J. German Rivera. In…
What's new in Ada Utility Library 2.7.0
Version 2.7.0 of Ada Utility Library (https://github.com/stcarrez/ada-util) brings the following improvements: - Used spdx-tool (https://gitlab.com/stcarrez/spdx-tool) to use SPDX-License-Identifier
Ada/SPARK Crate of the Year (2024) Award
by Fabien Chouteau – Jun 19, 2024. We're happy to announce the fourth edition of our programming awards, The Ada/SPARK Crate of the Year Award! The Alire package manager is a game changer for Ada/SPARK, so we want to use this competition to reward the people contributing to the ecosystem.
The competition has three prizes of $2,000 each!
Alire on Open Collective 💸
Contributing to the Ada open source ecosystem through the Alire package manager for Ada/SPARK
Just came across a donation site for the Alire project.
> Contributing to the Ada open source ecosystem through the Alire package manager for Ada/SPARK
Ada Developers Workshop
Online participation in the Ada Developers Workshop will be free of charge! It is still a requirement to register. As a reminder, the Workshop's programe has been available for a while, so go ahead an take a look! 🤩
Amen! But as a believer in Ada, I'd say those who code in other languages need God's help more. ✨
Not only this startup speaks highly of Ada. Here's another example of successful application of this technology in space: SPARK/Ada for high integrity spacecraft software.
I'm new to Lemmy. Appreciate the heads-up, thank you! 👍
I would like to see Ada grow. Its clean syntax, rich expressive capabilities, and early error detection by the compiler due to strict typing create a very pleasant experience during development. This year, the language got a new standard. Recently, a package manager and a community index were created. There's an extension/LSP for vscode, etc. Along with great educational materials on learn.adacore.com, it's easy to pick up and start using this language.
PS I created a community on p.d two days ago: https://programming.dev/c/ada