Alire - Ada Library Repository
Sadly, there has been a loooong pause in my journey to learn Ada. I was kind of surprised to see that it has been already almost three years since the last post, incredible! I think one of the major obstacle in my quest was the fact that I wasn't accustomed to look for and install all the libraries I'd need for a project, manually. I wasn't accustomed to do that, as most of the other languages I've used before have some sort of dependency management system, pip for Python, sbt for Scala etc. Call it laziness, if you will, but nowadays I'd say it's something that is kind of expected to be available. It's part of the modern on-boarding experience. So, a while back I was lucky to find the Alire , a new project to bring just that missing piece of infrastructure to the Ada world. My motivation to learn Ada increased ten fold! The Alire project lives in GitHub Alire (github.com) and is most actively developed by Alejandro R. Mosteo and Fabien Chouteau, who are