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After years, and many languages, I still have to say Ada. Kotlin, Rust, Julia, and Nim are my current contenders to overtake, but here's what Ada does well enough to still be my preferred tool when appropriate:
There are some situation where Ada shows its age:
func
/proc
(Nim) vsfun
(Kotlin) vsfn
(Rust) doesn't make much difference to me, butfunction X returns Y
/procedure X
starts to add a lot of visual noise to a file.Here's when I use the alternatives, and their biggest weaknesses:
Thank you for attending my TED talk :P. Any questions?
That's a great opinion piece you've written there. You could with a little editing and restructuring turn it into an article.
I've never used Ada (I've heard great things, though), and I've only used Rust and Kotlin a little bit, but I can at least vouch that Julia and Nim are both supremely lovely languages.
I learned Ada in the early 90s before being plunged into a world of C/C++. I haven't heard much about it since, but I'm glad to hear it's alive and kicking. I'll have to have another look, see if I recognize any of it!
Really appreciated this thanks for taking the time to put this together.