Recently became big Ada fanboy, ironic because Im far more a fan of minimal, succinct syntax like lisp, forth, etc and I actually successfully lobbied a professor in 1993 to _not_ use it in an undergrad software engineering class lol.
Still in the honeymoon phase granted, but I'm actually terrified that we have these new defense tech startups have no clue about Ada collectively.
Your startup MVP you wants to ship a SaaS product ASAP and iterate? Sure, grab Python or JS and whatever shitstorm of libraries you want to wrestle with.
Want to play God and write code that kills?
Total category error.
The fact that I'm sure there are at least a few of these defense tech startups yolo'ing our future away with vibe coded commits when writing code that... let's not mince our words... takes human life... prob says about how far we've fallen from "engineering".
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Recently became big Ada fanboy, ironic because Im far more a fan of minimal, succinct syntax like lisp, forth, etc and I actually successfully lobbied a professor in 1993 to _not_ use it in an undergrad software engineering class lol.
Still in the honeymoon phase granted, but I'm actually terrified that we have these new defense tech startups have no clue about Ada collectively.
Your startup MVP you wants to ship a SaaS product ASAP and iterate? Sure, grab Python or JS and whatever shitstorm of libraries you want to wrestle with.
Want to play God and write code that kills?
Total category error.
The fact that I'm sure there are at least a few of these defense tech startups yolo'ing our future away with vibe coded commits when writing code that... let's not mince our words... takes human life... prob says about how far we've fallen from "engineering".