The document discusses AdaCore's mission to help people build reliable software using Ada and busts myths about the language. It notes that Ada has a strong community and ecosystem, is used beyond aerospace & defense in industries like automotive and rail, and that AdaCore is working to improve access to Ada through training and tools to spread awareness of the language.

1. Ada: An AdaCore Perspective
Jamie Ayre

2. The world is starting to catch
up with Ada. Software
“glitches” are becoming less
and less acceptable…

3. Building new, safe, reliable
systems from scratch is
expensive

4. Especially when you don’t
use the appropriate tools

5. Our mission is to help
people build software
that matters

6. How do we do this?
(This is not a product
presentation)

7. Busting myths - Ada is certainly not dead
- Ada is a very solid, mainstream language in the safety critical
world
- It has a strong and passionate community
- This community takes it through regular updates

8. Busting myths – Moving the mountain
- Ada 2012 is raising a lot of interest beyond Ada users
- Supporting modern architectures – ARM, Raspberry Pi, etc.
- Bringing Ada to younger, grass-roots communities – drones, maker, etc.
- Tools like QGen bring Ada to the world of Simulink
- SPARK brings formal methods to non-Ada developers

9. Busting myths – Ada is only
used in A&D
- Business is developing beyond traditional A&D
market
- We see interest from new markets such as rail,
automotive and industrial automation
- We see massive interest coming from the
automotive industry
- We see a lot of interest from the C/C++
community

10. Busting myths - Ada has a strong ecosystem
- Long ago we had a compiler…
- We still have that compiler but it has grown into a full
development environment with complimentary tools
- The ecosystem has realigned itself to support customer needs
- Tool and RTOS partners are seeing increased revenue from Ada

11. Spreading the word
- So let’s tell people about it!
- Customer case studies
- Articles
- Opinion pieces
- Conferences
- Webinars
- Social media

12. Helping the Developer
- AdaCore is working on improving access to
all developers through
- AdaCore U
- GAP
- Public training courses

13. Helping the Developer
- And we are still very, very committed to
releasing the GPL edition each year…
- Free Software has made AdaCore the
company we are

14. Happy
Birthday Lady
Ada!

15. #AdaLove