brookfreepascal VS gnatstudio

> There's a pantheon of various components for Internet protocols available that work well, I have used REST and SOAP amongst others.

Clients, sure. But something like the Spring framework for Java or ASP.NET for .NET, or even Ruby on Rails or Django for Python? Not quite.

Closest that I could find was Brook: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Brook_for_Free_Pascal but it appears that it isn't in very active development at all (last release was 3 years ago: https://github.com/risoflora/brookfreepascal)

There is a nice page about web development on the Wiki: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Portal:Web_Development

But for the most part, even there you won't find the "one true way" to develop new enterprise apps or other larger projects.

There is fcl-web (https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fcl-web) and fpWeb (https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpWeb_Tutorial) but both lean more towards writing your own web server and handling the lower level HTTP interaction, vs what something like Django would let you do, mostly thinking of what your app should do, not so much about how it will look on a per-request basis: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/intro/tutorial01/

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