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
As part of the AdaCore GNAT Academic Program, Capstones offers senior higher education students the opportunity to take on challenging and exciting engineering projects within a high-integrity technology and culture framework.As we begin a new academic year, with everyone back and ready to face new challenges, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the high-quality projects completed over the past year.
GNAT Pro Assurance customers have access to a special variant of GNATcheck called GNATkp (GNAT Known Problems detector). This tool is packaged with rules designed to detect Ada constructs affected by known problems in compiler releases.
In April 2024 a streamer named Tsoding developed a video game from start to finish in Ada in 20 days. He seemed to have enjoyed the experience, to the point where he says that Ada will be the next trendy programming language for game development. Ignoring the potential irony in the streamer’s comment, I thought let’s give Ada gamedev a little push in that direction.
I recently watched the talks from the 28th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2024), which was held in Barcelona last June.One talk that stood out was "HiRTOS: a Multicore RTOS Written in SPARK Ada" by J. German Rivera. In his presentation, he mentioned running HiRTOS on Renode, an open-source simulation and virtual development framework for complex embedded systems (https://github.com/renode/renode).
On June 25th, I attended the Rust Paris 2024 conference. Among around one hundred Rust enthusiasts and a program filled with captivating subjects and contributors, I presented (together with Thales) our vision for establishing a Rust ecosystem for certifiable embedded critical systems.
In this article, Fabien Chouteau explains the importance of secure software in the emerging telecommunications industry.
In the past few years, attacks compromising software supply chains (MITRE ATT&CK T1195) have become more prominent, with cases such as NotPeya, Target data breach, Solarwinds, … The impact of the SolarWinds attack in 2020 in the United States led to Executive Order 14028, which strongly focuses on improving the security and integrity of software supply chains. Since then, various initiatives have been started, either by governments or organizations, such as SSDF (“Secure Software Development Framework”) by NIST or the SLSA framework (“Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts”) by OpenSSF (2021).
