The March edition of the TIOBE Index shows Ada in the top 20, hitting position 18. This shows a renewed interest in Ada, perhaps due to the increased interest in memory-safe languages and software safety and correctness in general.
The Ada Mars Rover shouldn’t crash into obstacles. See how we formalized this property, discovered an unstated assumption in our remote-control mode that could have led the Rover to crash, removed the assumption, and ultimately proved this property using SPARK. You’ll be surprised how little new code - including proof code - was needed!
A new Learn course is now available, focusing on how to use the Ada language to express common idioms, both language-dependent and -independent.
To celebrate Global Engineering Day, we’re looking at what it’s like to work as a truly global engineer, collaborating with international colleagues from all over the world to advance software development.
Developing a game engine often requires a highly optimized linear algebra library for tasks like physics, camera movement, and AI. While many languages already have mature options, Ada’s ecosystem lacks such solutions. To fill this gap, I created Neo.SIMD as part of the AdaDoom3 project. Neo.SIMD takes advantage of SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions, which process multiple data points in parallel and can greatly improve performance for vector and matrix operations.
The FACE® approach (Future Airborne Capability Environment®) is a joint government-industry initiative to reduce system life cycle costs for airborne software through the reuse of portable source code components. Sponsored by the US Department of Defense and currently open to the “Five Eyes” countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and the US) the FACE approach is administered by The Open Group’s FACE Consortium and is realized through several technologies based on open standards.
The Neorv32 BIOS project demonstrates how Ada can serve as a powerful alternative to C in open-source embedded development. Using a fully open-source stack—including Neorv32 (a VHDL-based RISC-V softcore), the ULX3S FPGA board, and an open FPGA toolchain—this project showcases Ada’s suitability for system programming, from low-level hardware interactions to high-level software abstraction.
In 2024 we announced our fourth Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Awards. We see the Alire source package manager as a game changer for Ada/SPARK, so we want to use the Crate of the Year awards to honor the people contributing to the ecosystem. Today we are pleased to announce the results.
At the end of November, we called the Ada and SPARK programmers community to take on a challenge for a good cause. For each person completing one of the Advent of Code exercises using the Ada programming language, AdaCore would donate $10 to the Ada Developers Academy. And for those willing to go the extra mile, AdaCore would donate $20 if the solution is implemented in SPARK. We are now in January and it is time for the results!
2025 is a new year of growth for the GNAT Pro family to help people develop safe, secure, and efficient code on a large variety of software and hardware platforms.Check our live website documentation for more details about the GNAT Pro 25 release. If you are interested in what's next, the public roadmap for AdaCore products is available on our documentation platform.
Introducing the Ada language with a fun 3D rendering project
Paul Butcher, the Secure Avioincs by Design Project Manager for AdaCore, discusses the usage of CHERI in safety-critical software.
As AdaCore celebrates the start of a new year in business, we reflect on 2024, a year of development and future-proofing combined with consolidating our position as the trusted experts in high-integrity software tools.
Emma Adby discusses her career evolution at AdaCore - from intern in Paris to Global Head of Marketing and UK Managing Director.
We're thrilled to kick off the holiday season with the third edition of Advent of Ada, a programming challenge that not only tests your coding skills but also contributes to a meaningful cause.As many of you know, Advent of Code has become a beloved tradition since its inception in 2015. The concept is simple yet brilliant: from December 1st to 25th, every day a new small programming exercise is published on the adventofcode.com website. Participants get points for each completed exercise.
In the previous blog post of this series, we set up a GNAT Static Analysis Suite (GNAT SAS) analysis pipeline. This post focuses on the pipeline's maintainability, security, and user experience.In this post, we will describe solutions to these issues by detailing the pipeline design and how to automate its update, and integrating a script to ease conducting and pushing reviews. Finally we’ll review using GitLab native analysis tooling to improve the user experience and gain a branch-aware analysis overview.
Some time ago we announced updates to the learn website. Since then, we've published new contents to the Advanced Journey with Ada course, which we discuss today.
As part of our 30 years of AdaCore celebrations, we spoke to some of our founders to discover the stories that built what we are so proud of today.Ed Schonberg and Richard Kenner share some memories.
At AdaCore, we’re in the business of supporting people who develop high-integrity software, in particular for embedded systems. In terms of programming languages, this means supporting the most commonly found candidates, which in 2024 include C/C++, Ada/SPARK, and Rust. If you’ve already made your decision, we will support you. However, in a number of situations, people ask us: “What should we do? What’s the best out there?”. While it’s difficult to give a one-size-fits-all answer, there are some strategic elements to consider.
Learn more about Silvère To-Sah-Be-Nza's journey from Engineering graduate to working with software engineering customers in the field
