I would like to announce the April (2026) Ada Monthly Meetup which will be taking place on the 25th of April at 14:00 UTC time (16:00 CEST). As always the meetup will take place over at Jitsi. The Meetup will also be livestreamed/recorded to Youtube.
Please, note that the date is not the first Saturday of the month, rather the last one. Also, notice the change in the time for Europeans and potentially other regions of the world, as summer time will be in effect by then! Additionally, this will be the last meetup in a while, as the next Ada gathering will be during the AEiC 2026 conference and the Ada Developers Workshop in June!
Connection details
The meetup will take place over at Jitsi, a conferencing software that runs on any modern browser. The link is Jitsi Meet The room name is “AdaMonthlyMeetup” and in case it asks for a password, it will be set to “AdaRules”.
I do not want to set up a password, but in case it is needed, it will be the one above without the quotes. The room name is generally not needed as the link should take you directly there, but I want to write it down just in case someone needs it.
Topics for the meetup
For this meetup, @AdaOrbit will present us her work on the Ada support for the Casio fx-CG50. More information is available in the forum thread of the topic Ada on the Casio fx-CG50
If someone would like to propose a talk or a topic, feel free to do so!
Ada on the Casio fx-CG50 by @AdaOrbit! She has been working in bringing Ada support to this little device and plans to create a videogame as the end goal. She told us about the specifics of the hardware, the community, libraries and specially about bringing Ada support to a completely new platform.
@ovenpasta showcased his work in getting GNAT-LLVM running with the newest GCC versions and his improvements to the WASM runtime. He then demoed his a basic Ada program and SDL3 running in the browser as well as some WASM interactive examples with Node.js (using GNAT-LLVM and Emscripten).
Interesting. In 2003 I tried to add the Boehm-Demers-Weiser collector to the languages as part of my AdaCL Project. I have removed it again because I’m not sure if it ever worked as my programs are short run anyway so I would never notice if memory is never freed.
Still I find this very interesting. there is a total of four attempts to add the Boehm-Demers-Weiser collector to Ada. Maybe there is a need after all.