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I am inclined to agree. By the way: when I first read about Rust and its "safety features" that make it appealing to people, the first programming language that came to mind was Ada. I suppose it lacks the hype (and consequently a vibrant ecosystem, IMO) and people hold absurd misconceptions of the language[1]. :/ I am trying my best to dissipate those misconceptions on Hacker News; hopefully it does not count as shilling. :P

If any of you reading this comment is interested, you may want to check out my previous comments regarding Ada.[2]

By the way, just to be on topic: I found Linus' opinion on Ada vs Rust here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20838125. He said "We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters.". That is all though, he does not get into explaining why he believes Ada to be a disaster. Again, "I do not see any reasons given for why he considers Ada a disaster. Cannot really do much with this opinion as it is."

[1] Some people claimed that it is a legacy language which is just simply not true. I would suggest that they give https://blog.adacore.com/ and https://blog.adacore.com/gnat-community-2020-is-here a read.

[2]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122884 (!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19245898 (!!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19274244 (!!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19274412

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19770405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20934511 (!!) [3]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20939336 (!!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21286061

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21286292

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21435869 (!)