I would like to announce the February (2026) Ada Monthly Meetup which will be taking place on the 7th of February at 14:00 UTC time (15:00 CEST). As always the meetup will take place over at Jitsi. The Meetup will also be livestreamed/recorded to Youtube.
I did say that there would be no February meetup as I expected to get either a Devroom or a Stand for FOSDEM, which would serve as a meetup point, but that was not the case. So there will be a February edition!
If someone would like to propose a talk or a topic, feel free to do so! We currently have no proposals.
Here are the connection details from previous posts:
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.
Feel free to repost this in other forums or chats, such as Reddit or send it to friends!! >:D
the Journal Track deadline is one week from now (13 Feb),
for all other submissions the current deadline is in 3 weeks time (27 Feb), but might be extended (if you need that, let us know), and
as announced separately our proposal for a 3rd Ada Developer Workshop has just now officially been accepted, so everybody should start thinking about cool presentation proposals!
On top of the topics discussed above, here are other discussions that took place:
Paul discussed his experience writing his Forth. He detailed his use of tests and the (pleasant) AI assisted coding experience.
The surprise announcement is that the Ada User Society is creating the Ada User Awards. It is hoped to incentivize improvements within the Ada Ecosystem by giving small economical incentives. More on that in the coming weeks! Also, we are looking into other funding streams in the not too far future, but more on that much later.
@elmcdonough detailed the state of parallel support within GNAT and what is lacking. He hopes to be able to send the patches to GCC soonish, as there are some parts that still need to be implemented and refined.
We had a nice discussion about the strengths of Ada and its strengths which was kickstarted by Divyá Ranjan.
And as a reminder, submit your talks to the Ada Europe International Conference if you are planning to do so! The Ada Developers Workshop will also be taking place as usual.
Best regards to you all and see you in the next one!
I would like to propose C++ to Ada native binding topic.
SWIG is a helpful workaround but not native compiler bindings as it is with C bindings.
Having the ability to natively bind Ada code against C++ libs (as many GUI frameworks are) would be a major advantage for Ada.
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But of course, no pressure!