> Too bad, the DoD didn't have the foresight to create/sponsor a Free Ada compiler sooner..
The US Air Force supposedly help fund the development of GNAT, the GCC front-end for Ada, from 1991 - 1994. It suffered from license problems with GCC and the myth you need a paid compiler to write non-GPL code.
The issue with Ada is that most people don't even know that it still exists. That, or they think it's going to be like writing COBOL. Instead it's a contemporary language to C++, which evolved through Pascal rather than C and has similarly received updates, Ada 2012 especially [0]. It even has a package manager now[1].
The US Air Force supposedly help fund the development of GNAT, the GCC front-end for Ada, from 1991 - 1994. It suffered from license problems with GCC and the myth you need a paid compiler to write non-GPL code.
The issue with Ada is that most people don't even know that it still exists. That, or they think it's going to be like writing COBOL. Instead it's a contemporary language to C++, which evolved through Pascal rather than C and has similarly received updates, Ada 2012 especially [0]. It even has a package manager now[1].
[0] : learn.adacore.com/
[1] : https://alire.ada.dev/