Ada: An AdaCore Perspective
Jamie AyreMARKETING DIRECTOR
The world is starting to catch up with Ada. Software
“glitches” are becoming less and less acceptable…
Building new, safe, reliable systems from scratch is
expensive
Especially when you don’t use the appropriate tools
Our mission is to help people build software
that matters
How do we do this?(This is not a product
presentation)
Busting myths - Ada is certainly not dead- Ada is a very solid, mainstream language in the safety critical world
- It has a strong and passionate community
- This community takes it through regular updates
Busting myths – Moving the mountain- Ada 2012 is raising a lot of interest beyond Ada users
- Supporting modern architectures – ARM, Raspberry Pi, etc.
- Bringing Ada to younger, grass-roots communities – drones, maker, etc.
- Tools like QGen bring Ada to the world of Simulink
- SPARK brings formal methods to non-Ada developers
Busting myths – Ada is only used in A&D- Business is developing beyond traditional A&D market
- We see interest from new markets such as rail, automotive and industrial automation
- We see massive interest coming from the automotive industry
- We see a lot of interest from the C/C++ community
Busting myths - Ada has a strong ecosystem
- Long ago we had a compiler…
- We still have that compiler but it has grown into a full development environment with complimentary tools
- The ecosystem has realigned itself to support customer needs
- Tool and RTOS partners are seeing increased revenue from Ada
Spreading the word- So let’s tell people about it!
- Customer case studies
- Articles
- Opinion pieces
- Conferences
- Webinars
- Social media
Helping the Developer- AdaCore is working on improving access to all developers through
- AdaCore U
- GAP
- Public training courses
Helping the Developer- And we are still very, very committed to releasing the GPL edition each year…
- Free Software has made AdaCore the company we are
Happy Birthday Lady
Ada!
#AdaLove