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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?
Really appreciated this thanks for taking the time to put this together.