alt Hacker News>the mandate ended, and Ada faded from the spotlight
Exactly. People stopped using Ada as soon as they were no longer forced to use it.
In other words on its own merits people don't choose it.
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mastermage • today at 6:35 AM
Ada is a greatly designed language and I mean this. The problem Ada has is highly proprietary compilers.
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On their own merits, people choose SMS-based 2FA, "2FA" which lets you into an account without a password, perf-critical CLI tools written in Python, externalizing the cost of hacks to random people who aren't even your own customers, eating an extra 100 calories per day, and a whole host of other problematic behaviors.
Maybe Ada's bad, but programmer preference isn't a strong enough argument. It's just as likely that newer software is buggier and more unsafe or that this otherwise isn't an apples-to-apples comparison.