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From what I can tell, trying to write a browser in Ada would be madness. Ada's memory management stuff is very primitive compared to Rust's. That may change as Ada keeps evolving, of course.





It has historically been solved in different ways [1] :)

Unfortunately most people would not be happy taking the same approach to their web browser.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98... where the subject post was from comp.lang.ada.




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