I have only skimmed the surface of learning Rust, but I am wondering what it has over Ada. The memory safety features that Rust emphasizes have been standard there for 40 years, and just as unglamorous compared to C++.
I tend to focus on scripting nowadays… R and Pyrhon… with the odd C++ for high-speed algorithms because it is popular. But is Rust merely a new face on Ada?
Rust is already dramatically more popular and widespread than ADA ever was ( outside the US military ). Devs that use Rust say they love it. I do not believe that is the rule for ADA.
Rust is also very well suited to extending existing C and C++ code bases. I do not know enough about ADA to compare but it is my sense that it is not as strong there.
I have only skimmed the surface of learning Rust, but I am wondering what it has over Ada. The memory safety features that Rust emphasizes have been standard there for 40 years, and just as unglamorous compared to C++.
I tend to focus on scripting nowadays… R and Pyrhon… with the odd C++ for high-speed algorithms because it is popular. But is Rust merely a new face on Ada?
Rust is already dramatically more popular and widespread than ADA ever was ( outside the US military ). Devs that use Rust say they love it. I do not believe that is the rule for ADA.
Rust is also very well suited to extending existing C and C++ code bases. I do not know enough about ADA to compare but it is my sense that it is not as strong there.
There is no ADA in the Linux or Windows kernels.
From what I understand, Ada does not have an equivalent to Rust’s borrow checker. There’s efforts to replicate that for Ada, but it’s not there yet.