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by Rochus·6y ago·view on hn ↗
> In any case, developers don't seem to be too keen on adopting Ada.

Yes, unfortunately; the trend seems to go in the opposite direction; but anyway: if I really wanted to switch to something new and spend the effort to invest in new tools and education, then I would rather choose a technology with a decently long track record demonstrating that it fulfills all my expectations because of which I left my original technology. Rust will take one or two decades for this; Ada/Spark has already been through this.

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If everyone adopted this mindset, there'd be no new programming languages because no one would learn them until they'd been around for 20 years. Sometimes it makes sense for companies to take a risk on a new technology.
If it's your company and your money, then of course you can decide yourself whether you want to take that risk; most likely not immediately in a multi-million dollar project though.