The biggest champion of community building is @Irvise, with his vision being a multi-year effort. It seems to be working with the return of the half-day Ada Dev Room at FOSDEM and the forum here being more active.
The community and available resources are spread out among many different parties. ada-lang.io is a community site, there’s not a real maintainer, though @JeremyGrosser keeps it and these forums running.
Most of the open source community seems to revolve around GNAT, since that’s freely available. The AdaCore folks seem to do their own thing, which makes sense since they’re paid to support clients of their stack based on GNAT, but they make a lot of things available to the community and do respond to GitHub issues. They also run learn.adacore.com, which is a great tutorial site, and you see them in here from time to time. I’m not sure what the story is with Alire.
This issue… the very first exposure the students will have to Ada… doesn’t create a good impression.
It’s not great yet, but the situation is remarkably improved since I started writing Ada in mid 2021. I saw where it was and it’s a night and day difference if you want to write open source Ada.
Since 2021, we’ve seen Alire 1.0, significantly improved VS Code support, learn.adacore.com improvements, a new code formatter released (GNATformat), ada-lang.io, AdaCore licensing changes to make libraries more permissive, this forum started, a new ARG page, multiple “package of the year” competitions, toolchain installation with Alire and associated cleaning up of toolchain issues, gnatprove runnable with Alire, there’s now a Ada community meeting most months, https://www.getada.dev/, and probably more stuff that I’m forgetting about.
We still need more varied tutorials, walkthroughs and guides.