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Nvidia drives Ada and SPARK into driverless cars

5 points| DragonSpiritWTP | 8 months ago |eenewseurope.com

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DragonSpiritWTP|8 months ago

This is a great article that highlights various virtues of developing with Ada and SPARK that contributed to NVIDIA's recent achievement of certifying their DriveOS automotive operating system to the _highest_ automotive level of safety, ASIL-D. The first ever!

Here is a paragraph from the article:

“Adopting a new programming language involves deploying a new environment, training teams to a new formalism, adapting programming patterns and many other issues. However, from a process standpoint, programming languages are vastly interchangeable, but Ada and SPARK is a different story.”