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Open-Source Ada: From Gateware to Application

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60 points Bogdanp | 3 comments | 01 Nov 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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no_wizard ◴[01 Nov 25 19:33 UTC] No.45784599[source]▶
This is specifically for hardware. Looks really cool!

I’ve always been confused about Ada the language and its licensing though. I know this project is open source but is the language as well? It’s unclear to me, though I may be missing information

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tremon ◴[01 Nov 25 19:59 UTC] No.45784833[source]▶
What do you mean with "is the language open source"? The Ada specification is public [0] but not open source -- but the C and C++ specifications are not open source either, in the normal sense of the term. And like with C and C++, there are both open source and proprietary compilers for Ada, see e.g. [1]

What's mostly not open source (FAFAIK) is SPARK, the formal verification framework for Ada.

[0] https://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/standards/ada22/

[1] https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada#compilers

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1. i-con ◴[01 Nov 25 20:10 UTC] No.45784914[source]▶
SPARK tools are also open source. The main tool `gnatprove` is based on GCC as well. https://github.com/AdaCore/spark2014

It's not a community project, AFAICT. Few people know how to build it from source.

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2. tremon ◴[01 Nov 25 20:13 UTC] No.45784940[source]▶
That links gives me a 404. Does it require membership of some organization before you're allowed to view it?

edit: did you mean https://github.com/AdaCore/spark2014 ?

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3. i-con ◴[01 Nov 25 20:19 UTC] No.45784964[source]▶
Sorry, yes 2014. Fixed it.