What's New in Ada 2022

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • brookfreepascal

    The perfect Free Pascal framework for your web applications.

  • > 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/

  • PolyORB

    PolyORB provides a uniform solution to build distributed applications relying either on middleware standards

  • Ada has a distributed systems annex:

    http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-E.html

    (An annex in Ada is an optional portion of the language designed for a particular use case that a given Ada implementation may or may not implement.)

    AdaCore tutorials about using the distributed systems annex:

    https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-84

    https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-85the-distributed-systems-a...

    https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-87-the-distributed-systems-...

    https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-90-the-distributed-systems-...

    PolyORB might also be interesting:

    https://github.com/AdaCore/PolyORB

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  • gnatstudio

    GNAT Studio is a powerful and lightweight IDE for Ada and SPARK.

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

    https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio

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