11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Ada first-hand: 4 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I do have an Ada port of a game I was working on that does illustrate a lot of upsides.”
endorse · personal · 59nadir · 2026-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've done a little bit of Ada in the last year and I really, really want something better.”
regret · personal · 1 yr · dralley · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ada had some correctness advantages compared to C++, but also disadvantages. It had drastically slower build times”
mixed · production · pron · 2025-08-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mostly I just like Ada, but there's a few things have been very useful here”
endorse · personal · LiamPowell · 2024-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ada is a wonderful, WONDERFUL, language. Albeit a bit verbose.”
endorse · personal · Keyframe · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ada, particularly, made cross-language design easier to support this use case... I did it myself in numerous designs for fault-isolation or security reasons.”
endorse · production · nickpsecurity · 2015-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Things I have become an expert in that are now useless to me and probably not valued by an employer”
regret · production · pkteison · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we switched from Ada to Java I had to show ROI”
neutral · production · bandrami · 2026-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my shop we use C, C++ and Ada.”
neutral · production · zppln · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as I did with Perl, Erlang, or now doing with Ada”
neutral · personal · dozzie · 2017-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my "normal" job, I get a very small white list of programming languages.”
neutral · production · stevenN · 2010-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?