> If you tried to use it you would probably be extremely frustrated.
I actually tried and it was surprisingly pleasant. Ada has also grown since the 80's, the last standard is from 2022.
Now, there're still some warts in the spec that I think are holding Ada back, but better UTF-8 support, simpler IO primitives (this could be a library) and a new profile without erroneous execution (i.e. memory safety without Spark) would fix most of them.
I actually tried and it was surprisingly pleasant. Ada has also grown since the 80's, the last standard is from 2022.
Now, there're still some warts in the spec that I think are holding Ada back, but better UTF-8 support, simpler IO primitives (this could be a library) and a new profile without erroneous execution (i.e. memory safety without Spark) would fix most of them.