Comment by stackghost

I made no judgement about whether Ada is subjectively "bad" or not. I used it for a single side project many years ago, and didn't like it.

But my anecdotal experience aside, it is plain to see that developers had the opportunity to continue with Ada and largely did not once they were no longer required to use it.

So, it is exceedingly unlikely that some conspiracy against C++, motivated by mustache-twirling Ada gurus, is afoot. And even if that were true, knocking C++ down several pegs will not make people go back to Ada.

C#, Rust, and Go all exist and are all immensely more popular than Ada. If there were to be a sudden exodus of C++ developers, these languages would likely be the main beneficiaries.

My original point, that C++ isn't what's standing in the way of Ada being popular, still stands.