awesome-ada VS gnatstudio

At the moment we have * Reddit, a news aggregator, Awesome Ada link list, and they work good too. (Thank involved people for this!) * Organization/company based sites, and they work good (e.g. adaic.org, ada-auth.org, sigada.org, adacore.com) * Chats, comp.lang.ada "news group" * Wiki books * Ada Programming (Is it updated?) * Ada Style Guide (It looks like to be never updated since uploading) * person-driven sites are often biassed, become outdated and abandoned * For example, adapower.com, getadanow.com, learnadanow.com are not updated (e.g. no Alire mention), have expired SSL certificate and dead links. (Sorry David, it's just for example!). * long(?) list of dead or frozen sites * adahome.com - alive, not updated * adaworld.com - has changed owner * planet.ada.wtf not resolved * ancient Public Ada Library (PAL) gone * per country community is mostly alive * adaspain.org is't responding

I too are partial to the Ada (the person) logos. The modern takes in the awesome-ada site are my favorite. In particular the previous one was very cool: https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada/tree/f0e3df247119dd3730c4bda6cac0e0c3fd93087c

All libraries listed in awesome-ada added to Alire.

awesome-ada

In order to find good examples for Ada, I think we should add all our projects to the curated list of awesome Ada resources. OK, it won't be curated if we add everything, but in fact it's far from being crowded. It can be curated later if it overgrows. In my opinion, both these projects (Dashera and Yotroc) ought to be included, and they aren't.

Depends on the libs, see [Awesome Ada][https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada]

If it's not in Alire, second step is looking in the curated list of Ada projects (and then follow README or BUILDING instructions): https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada

There are still many interesting projects in https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada and other sources, which are not indexed by Alire, so there is room for improvement.

In terms of bootstrapping your environment and getting started, I'd recommend looking at Vim-Ada and Awesome Ada. I also tried to write up some practical advice from my experience, which might be helpful.

On Awesome Ada list, you can find examples of Ada usage outside embedded development.

As for compilers, there really is only GNAT if you don’t want to spend extra money (note: It’s GCC based so you have a C and C++ compiler that comes with it). I definitely recommend getting a copy of Alire( https://alire.ada.dev/ ) to help get you started. If you want to use Visual Studio Code, there is Ada support for it (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AdaCore.ada). There is also GNAT Programming Studio (https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio/releases). Once you have those then you can compile the C and Ada code and throw in extra C++ if you would like.

"https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio/releases"

This is not a GNAT (the compiler) release, it is a continuous release of GNATstudio (the IDE).

As of today Alire doesn’t install GNAT Studio automatically, but you can get a release for Windows x64-64 or Linux x86-64 from the repository: https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio/releases Once GNAT Studio is installed and in the PATH, you only have to use the command $ alr edit in your crate to start it.

https://alire.ada.dev https://github.com/Adacore/gnatstudio

Today in the year 2022 the way to install the GNAT compiler on a Debian/Ubuntu system is to execute "sudo apt install gnat gprbuild" in the terminal, followed by downloading and installing the GNAT Studio IDE from https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio/releases. This is described at https://alire.ada.dev/transition_from_gnat_community.html and also how to install the GNAT compiler on other platforms. In the era of the GNAT Community Edition 2007-2021 (https://www.adacore.com/download), the process for installing the compiler and tools was simplified from the 2007 version of the compiler and ended in 2021 with simply executing a script called doinstall where the installation directory for example /usr/gnat was pointed out and then the path /usr/gnat/bin directory was put on the PATH environment variable. In previous versions of the GNAT compiler there was a need to specify more environment variables in order to be good to go which I recently learned when installing the GNAT 3.14b compiler (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_P%20MS-Dos%20i386/3.14/) from 2002 on FreeDOS 1.3 (https://freedos.org/). Let's say the GNAT 3.14b compiler has been unzipped in the directory C:\GNAT\. There are then three directories which need to be put on the PATH environment variable:

There is an Ada specific IDE with a nice memory footprint here.

https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio