Comment by potato-peeler
1 day ago
Not the case with spark. But I understand it requires writing lot of things from scratch for browsers. But I don’t think portability will be an issue with Ada, it is cross platform.
However, this is where d shines. D has a mature ecosystem. Offers first class cpp abi and provides memory safety guarantees, which the blog mentioned as a primary factor. And d is similar to cpp, low barrier for cpp devs to pick up.
There's no dynamic memory allocation with (100%) Spark. That's really limiting. You can to write "unsafe" code, but that has the same problems as Ada.
I thought SPARK got dynamic memory allocation when it adopted Rust-style ownership and borrowing in 2014.
That is true for parsers like libjs, but again crypto module or even networking, can still be written in spark, which is much more safety critical.
SPARK is not used for the whole system, but for the < 5% parts, which are safety/security-related in a good architecture.