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Wow, was not expecting Boomer Rust to take center stage here. Awesome results by the security team.

Ada = Boomer Rust <==> Rust = Millennial Ada

I can imagine Boomers laughing but the Rustaceans not seeing the humour in it at all. I could be wrong...

Millennials are getting old though. When is Gen Z going to build a language? They probably won't though, because it's hard to ask an AI to build a brand new Ada for you.

Sadly, Rust still lacks some features that Ada has. For example, range types[1] (a narrow case of the dependent types).

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/range

In my talk I expounded on how people were concerned with safety even in the 80s, and how Ada provides tools to construct programs that were safe in many other ways besides just memory safety.

That's an incredible title!

Yeah, I gave a talk on Ada a few months back at a local meetup. Calling it "Boomer Rust" at the start helped break the ice, everyone laughed, and it also helped them get the gist of Ada's particular value-add while I went into details.

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