Getada
Dev tools
toolchain installer
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How HN took it
5 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 13 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.
Execution: 2 for, 5 againstIdea: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Better onboarding is important for adoption, Rustup-style installer welcomed
From 3 comments
As a current Rustup maintainer with a bit of Ada background I gotta say: nice work! I do feel Ada as a language is way ahead of its time, but when I was learning it (a while…
rami3l on HNThis is amazing. devX matter a lot for adoption. I keep hearing about Ada a lot but the learning experience were difficult when I tried it.
didip on HNThis! Tooling ease of use matters! A lot of interesting tech died off or never took off because the tooling was just too cumbersome to setup and use.
ithkuil on HN
Objections
Alire itself is not great for simple builds; some prefer GPRbuild
From 1 comment
> Since one of the biggest complaints about Ada is getting the toolchain [6], I hope this can solve a lot of problems for newcomers to the language. It might be just me, but…
adezxc on HN
Unclear why a wrapper is needed since Alire is easy to install
From 1 comment
I'm a little confused - is this just a wrapper around https://alire.ada.dev/ ? That tool itself isn't very hard to install.
inamberclad on HN
Requests
Support for musl/Alpine and other platforms beyond glibc Linux and macOS
From 1 comment
> I don't know if this tool solves the problem Not yet but it's on my list as a "phase 2" of sorts for getada. I have an alpine VPS that I'm playing around with but the main…
ajdude on HN
Questions
Does this enable Ada with SDL2 on Linux?
From 1 comment
Does this make it possible to use Ada and SDL2 on Linux?
xyproto on HN
Why is it not called Byron?
From 1 comment
How is this not called "Byron"?
trollian on HN
Alternatives named
Nix
From 1 comment
Just use Nix
max-privatevoid on HN
apt-get install gnat
From 1 comment
> One of my goals with Ada is to have a one-liner copy-paste terminal command for people to install Ada so they can get to coding in just a few minutes. After extensive testing I…
throwaway81523 on HN