New Ada Folks (<2 years), what made you pick up (or leave) Ada?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/ada

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  • aida_2012

  • For getting UTF-8 support one can also use Dmitry Kazakovs Simple components (http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components). Based on it have made a UTF-8 version which is Ada/Spark based (https://github.com/joakim-strandberg/aida_2012). Another one I have been toying with is cross-compiler: https://github.com/joakim-strandberg/portable_ada . To print to standard out using UTF-8 the easiest way is probably enabling "-gnatW8" in order for normal String types be interpreted as UTF-8 strings. Using the UTF-8 support in the links I would recommend making one's own Ada bindings to the OS. It should be easy to do on Mac OS X and Linux where UTF-8 is enabled by default but more of an issue on Windows where the UTF-8 encoded strings need to be converted to UTF-16 before being handed over to the OS.

  • portable_ada

  • For getting UTF-8 support one can also use Dmitry Kazakovs Simple components (http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components). Based on it have made a UTF-8 version which is Ada/Spark based (https://github.com/joakim-strandberg/aida_2012). Another one I have been toying with is cross-compiler: https://github.com/joakim-strandberg/portable_ada . To print to standard out using UTF-8 the easiest way is probably enabling "-gnatW8" in order for normal String types be interpreted as UTF-8 strings. Using the UTF-8 support in the links I would recommend making one's own Ada bindings to the OS. It should be easy to do on Mac OS X and Linux where UTF-8 is enabled by default but more of an issue on Windows where the UTF-8 encoded strings need to be converted to UTF-16 before being handed over to the OS.

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  • trendy_terminal

    A Windows/Linux library for enabling terminal settings and driving character-by-character input.

  • It does, it's not enabled by default and you can check your code page with chcp. Trendy Terminal 0.0.1 handles this for you, I should be soon releasing a 0.0.2 version of Trendy Terminal which uses an RAII type to ensure this gets reset properly for you. I'd highly recommend using "Windows Terminal" over the plain Powershell or Command Prompt.

  • VSS

    High level string and text processing library

  • I plan on using VSS to handle UTF-8.

  • rust-prometheus

    Prometheus instrumentation library for Rust applications

  • Rust has a popular binding: https://github.com/tikv/rust-prometheus

  • prometheus-client

    Haskell client library for exposing prometheus.io metrics.

  • Haskell has two: https://github.com/fimad/prometheus-haskell and https://github.com/bitnomial/prometheus

  • prometheus

    Prometheus.io Haskell client. (by bitnomial)

  • Haskell has two: https://github.com/fimad/prometheus-haskell and https://github.com/bitnomial/prometheus

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  • grpc-rust

    Rust implementation of gRPC

  • Rust has two: https://github.com/stepancheg/grpc-rust and https://github.com/hyperium/tonic

  • tokio

    A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

  • Nothing like https://tokio.rs/ seems to exist for Ada.

  • tonic

    A native gRPC client & server implementation with async/await support.

  • Rust has two: https://github.com/stepancheg/grpc-rust and https://github.com/hyperium/tonic

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