[kevlar700]

I think Ada is seen as some esteemed language that only the military and space would have the expertise to use. I had that opinion for maybe a decade but it was very wrong. The other issue was that it is so powerful that compilers had bugs and by the time an affordable open source compiler came along I guess C++ was gaining libraries and the militaries don't release libraries.

The ironic thing is that Ada was designed to be cost effective over a projects lifetime. C costs you a lot further down the line.

[aaronmdjones]

> I think Ada is seen as some esteemed language that only the military and space would have the expertise to use.

I know Boeing is technically a space company these days, but they weren't when they created the 777. Several of its systems are written in Ada, including the cockpit interfaces, electrical generator systems, and primary flight computers.

[pjmlp]

One of the reasons of the whole safety hype going on, is that companies have finally start mapping developer salaries, devops and infra costs, to fixing all those CVEs.