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Is Ada being used in the industry? Looks actually quite fun to play with from changelog additions. I didn’t realise it’s still under active development.

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Yes. People usually are surprised that NVIDIA is using it : https://www.adacore.com/nvidia

Ada is assumed to be dead by most US-centric programmers, but is alive and used outside the US. Seems most of the action these days in Ada-land is in Europe.

Not surprisingly, VHDL is also mostly used by European companies.

It's pretty famously used by the US government for safety-critical software.

Also avionics and air traffic control

And train control systems.

It was created by the US government, or at least by committee for the US government, specifically the DOD. There was a DOD mandate to use Ada, that lasted about 5 minutes before the rebellion against it won out. There's not a lot of new (this century) software written at the DOD's request in Ada.

That's interesting. For some reason I imagined it's still a requirement now.

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