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Cool project! Now, Zip-Ada's ReZip does much better, even if you stick with the Deflate compression scheme. For Zip archives, you have more compression schemes available (BZip2, LZ…

You have Alire crates for generating Excel and PDF streams/files. Of course you want everything else ;-).

The "Ada" topic is (only) for the last part. It precisely because with such a good tool, you focus on the important things: the algorithms. Precisely, there is no such a thing as t…

See also Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44555924 , Part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889163

It is a combination of different things: - the Alire crate system - Nvidia's own usage of Ada - lots of sleeping military projects that were awaken in recent years - the success of…

Unfortunately the author of the TIOBE index has obeyed too quickly to what Mr Herrera told him. The hits about that "Ada Lovelace architecture" are a negligible part of the hits yo…

Thx, corrected.

Thanks for the feedback. Multiple posts are planned on that topic. For parts 1 and 2 (so far the only ones existing) I preferred explaining the context and the remarkable simplicit…

The data in question cannot be compressed to zero, or close to zero, by far.

See also part 2: https://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/writing-bzip2-enco...

Interesting letter! His concerns were legitimate regarding complexity, but most of the items in his list of features are indispensable. Basically Ada 83 was a pre-version lacking k…

There is also an Ada 2022 standard.

* Splitting large enumerated types into smaller ones * Using the same range for arrays indexes, "for" loops parameters which index those arrays. In those cases a good compiler remo…