If on Sunday 2nd of February 2025 you are at Brussels, it could be an interesting idea to spend the morning by visiting the Ada developer room at FOSDEM. You'll learn about this non-mainstream language that keeps itself young with feature that are not commonly found in other languages.
Program overview:
- Welcome to the Ada DevRoom, by Fernando Oleo Blanco, Spain, and Dirk Craeynest, Belgium
- Updates on the Ada Ecosystem, by Fernando Oleo Blanco, Spain
- Get started with Ada in 2 minutes or less!, by A.J., USA
- Advent of Compression: writing a working BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days, by Gautier de Montmollin, Switzerland
- Ada and Mini-Ada: a solution to the two-language problem, by Gautier de Montmollin, Switzerland
- Understanding liquid types, contracts and formal verification with Ada/SPARK, by Fernando Oleo Blanco, Spain
- The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada, by Oli Scherer, Germany
- Cryptography in SPARK: building the foundation with constant-time bigints, by César Sagaert and Fabien Chouteau, France
- Multiword Arithmetic and Parallel Computing, by Jan Verschelde, USA
- Developing device drivers for Ironclad using Ada, by streaksu
- AdaBots - programmable minetest bots, by Tama McGlinn and Rudolf Batke, the Netherlands
Credits: cover image from this announcement
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