# Ada Monthly Meetup November 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Events\ **Tags:** meetup\ **Created:** [October 23, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-monthly-meetup-november-2025/3913 "2025-10-23T21:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Irvise](https://forum.ada-lang.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Irvise](https://forum.ada-lang.io/u/Irvise)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-monthly-meetup-november-2025/3913/6 "2025-11-08T16:33:31Z")
Hi all, here are the minutes of the meeting for today’s reunion! - @joakim-strandberg presented the Meridian Open Ada compiler. A compiler for DOS which anybody can download freely and give it a test or a full drive! I has a full RTS (actually two!) and you could try it out for this year’s Advent of Code. Additionally, it also comes with its own, full blown IDE :D! Here are the relevant links: - Wiki: [Meridian Open Ada - EDM2](https://www.edm2.com/index.php/Meridian_Open_Ada) - Download page (requires free login): [Download Meridian Ada Z 4.1.4 by Meridian Software Systems, Inc. | VETUSWARE.COM - the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe](https://vetusware.com/download/Meridian%20Ada%20Z%204.1.4/?id=17519) - Manual of the compiler: [Meridian Ada 4.1 User Guide (DOS version) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MeridianAda41UserGuideDOS/1_Readme/) - Validation report of the Green Hills Compiler which has the definition of `bamp` (the linker used by the Meridian compiler): [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA288573.pdf](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA288573.pdf) - And there are still DOS game jams, you could even use this compiler for it! [DOSember Game Jam - itch.io](https://itch.io/jam/dosember-game-jam) - Nvidia published their certification process for the highest quality software that one can build for the automotive sector [NVIDIA publishes SPARK Process to meet ISO-26262 requirements - #3 by kevlar700](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/nvidia-publishes-spark-process-to-meet-iso-26262-requirements/2114/3) But additionally, some people who work on the safety-critical systems of NVIDIA’s chips, gave a presentation in DEF CON 33 (this year) detailing their work on the RISC-V architecture and Ada/SPARK: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhWtkZmOPn4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhWtkZmOPn4) It is heavily implied in their presentation that they have shipped over 1 billion cores running Ada/SPARK!!! - @abitofhelp dropped a few new and cool libraries and tools, such as [Functional Error Handling v1.0.0: Result\, Option\, and Either\, Try\_To\_Result](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/functional-error-handling-v1-0-0-result-t-e-option-t-and-either-l-r-try-to-result/3925) Go and check them out! - AWS is going into maintenance mode and it is projected to be archived in the future: [AWS End Of Life](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/aws-end-of-life/3858) If you would like to keep maintaining it, contact @AJ-Ianozi as he is looking into options about it! - Similar news about PolyORB, it is also getting deprecated in the future: [Polyorb End of Life - #7 by dmitry-kazakov](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/polyorb-end-of-life/3927/7) - The VSS library has now been split into two! Read more about it here [ANN: VSS has been split into two libraries and main repo is now archived](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ann-vss-has-been-split-into-two-libraries-and-main-repo-is-now-archived/3885) - Advent of Code (AoC) is coming and this year it is going to be quite a bit shorter! [Plans for AOC 2025?](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/plans-for-aoc-2025/3930) - The last major Ada 2022 feature that was still not implemented in GNAT, `parallel`, is starting to see the light of day! [[GSoC & Ada] Working on open source Ada projects and getting paid? - #9 by sttaft](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/gsoc-ada-working-on-open-source-ada-projects-and-getting-paid/1892/9) Read more about it in the link - If you would like to test it out, you can use @Max’s precompiled GNAT binaries: [Release GCC with parallel PREVIEW · reznikmm/GNAT-FSF-builds · GitHub](https://github.com/reznikmm/GNAT-FSF-builds/releases/tag/16.0.0-20251102) - It would be great for people to use this new feature in the AoC to test it out and find bugs before it is hopefully upstreamed to GCC 16! - The Alire project now also provides compiled prereleases of GCC 16 in case you would like to start playing around with them! [Releases · alire-project/GNAT-FSF-builds · GitHub](https://github.com/alire-project/GNAT-FSF-builds/releases) - We did not get a devroom accepted for FOSDEM, but we are going to see if we get a stand! - A reminder that the next Ada-Europe international Conference will be taking place in Sweden, and we hope to have another Ada Developers Workshop! [https://www.ada-europe.org/conference2026/](https://www.ada-europe.org/conference2026/) - Wesley and Weston are working hard on the recordings of the of the Paris’ Ada Developers Workshop 😃! - And we hope to release some more news about the creation of a fund to… well, fund, Ada activities and achievements soon! - We are trying to form a Committee that will manage the funds, select ideas and distribute the grants. We need at least one more person! If you are interested in participating in the Committee, please, let me (@irvise) and @sttaft know! Thank you everybody who attended! If you couldn’t, you can find the livestream/recording in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F93rgu4t9As](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F93rgu4t9As) Best regards and see you all soon! Fer --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-monthly-meetup-november-2025/3913)._