Hi all! The meetup just ended! Here are the topics that were discussed:
- The 3rd Ada Developers Workshop @ AEiC 2026 - 2nd CfP may still have some time for a few small presentations in case you would like to make a late submission.
- The entrance will have a substantially reduced price and it will be free for those who want to attend online!
- There were several releases of programs and libraries, such as: GNAT Studio 2026.2 just released!, GCC/GNAT 16 changelog published, release is close, ANN: Tackle.Opts - declarative command line arguments parser, SI Units Checked and Unchecked - #3 by Nordic_Dogsledding, ESP-IDF GNAT Runtime for ESP32-S3, ANN: Configurable bareboard runtimes v15.2.0
- Emacs Ada support is being tackled by Divyá Gnu Emacs ada-mode - passing the torch - #4 by Irvise
- Martin (@krischik) has been publishing blogs about running Ada in the RPi Pico Chapter 5 – RGB LED with PWM + strange hang on delay until with embedded_rp2040 (help wanted)
- Garbage Collection topics were also discussed Conservative Garbage Collection for GNAT, GitHub - Roldak/AGC: Garbage collection for Ada · GitHub and GitHub - ytomino/bdwgc-ada: Boehm GC interface library for gcc-Ada (GNAT) · GitHub
Talks
During the meetup we had two presentations.
- 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).
- Links: GitHub - ovenpasta/gnat-llvm at gcc-16 · GitHub and GitHub - ovenpasta/adawebpack at gcc-16-wasm-rts · GitHub Use these links for the content shown in the video as they point to the correct branches.
Recording
The recording can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtAFzhwlIJo
Thanks to all of those who attended! Best regards,
Fer