vim-ada VS gnatstudio

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.

Vim-Ada has links to a built user-contributed docset to use.

There's also instructions about how to install a Zeal docset for Ada in the vim-ada instructions.

This version brings a couple (literally) new plugins (EasyMotion, QuickUI), one removed (Vim-Header) and one theme replaced (Gruvbox with Gruvbox8). For more detailed information about the changes, please look at the release page: https://github.com/thindil/vim-ada/releases/tag/v12.0

Due to often work with multi-language projects I use NeoVim with many plugins. I even created the project to easily configure Vim/NeoVim on GitHub. Generally, I looked at GPS and VS Code and put into Vim all these parts which I liked: like support for Ada Language Server, Zeal etc.

You could look at Programming Fonts page, probably the best place to try to find any good font for you. Personally, I use FiraCode mostly due to ligatures. You can look here to see how the Ada code looks with FiraCode.

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