The Twitch streamer Tsoding has been learning Ada over the last week by building a game with the raylib graphics library. It’s been fun to watch, albeit a bit frustrating when he only skims the documentation then claims it doesn’t answer his question. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day …

Thing is, I don’t think he’s wrong about the runtime though. Problem is, the runtime is directly linked with the compiler. Simpler languages, even Fortran, were easier to update to be more modern than Ada has ever been; Ada has always been complex. By updating the runtime to be more modern, you co…

In the second half of episode 3, he acknowledges the fact that his approach and the things he says can be polarizing, but it’s just how he is. He goes on to state that viewers should focus on whether he can make progress and what he is able to achieve in the end. He did make a comment that he think…

[image] Micronian2: In the second half of episode 3, he acknowledges the fact that his approach and the things he says can be polarizing, but it’s just how he is. He goes on to state that viewers should focus on whether he can make progress and what he is able to achieve in the end. I stopped…

These notes were taken after I had already seen about 6 episodes. I wanted to track this info to organise some of my ideas, open a discussion and use this information for a future talk that I want to give. Good parts: He is enjoyable to listen to, his main goal is to entertain. Being entertaini…

Yeah, I saw a few people say they were wanting to try Ada and I saw one say he’d just bought an Ada book. Other’s said in the chat numerous times that the emacs ada-mode didn’t work and you had to use the older one, I dunno, I gave up on ada-mode and emacs years ago, because I assumed as did he, th…

@Irvise OMG, what an impressive summary of the videos. Did you actually finish watching all of them? I have only finished the first three and have to take a short break before I see the next one. It’s frustrating to watch him inadvertently making the experience so much more difficult than it should…

Having learned Ada in isolation - I’ve still never talked to another Ada developer in person - I’d have been pretty lost without Barnes’ book. There’s a lot of things that Ada just does differently and you expect it to work with C or C++ and it doesn’t. Compared to how Rust, C#, C++ and every othe…

[image] Micronian2: Did you actually finish watching all of them? I am just going to say that I lost a few hours of sleep these last days :wink: [image] pyj: Compared to how Rust, C#, C++ and every other language I’ve used, the way Ada does generics is wild. On top of a lot of difference…

I think it would be interesting for you to interview him. As for GDB, use the catch command to catch all exceptions and b command to set a breakpoint, i.e. hello.adb:10 or mangled name to break at the start.

@Irvise It would be interesting for you to find others who have tried ada too, like getintogamedev (yt). Shame that tomekw stopped doing them.

Ada Forum

Making a game in Ada with Raylib

General

show post in topic

Home
Categories
Guidelines
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy

Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled