The March 2024 Meetup just finished! Thanks to everybody who participated.

Quite a few topics were discussed, here is a list of topics and references to them:

• WolfSSL and its Ada binding
• FOSDEM
• Ada Developer Workshop taking place in Barcelona the 14th of June.
  • The (current) submission deadline for presentations is the 31st of March!
  • Online participation is expected. We will try and have a setup to let people participate online!
  • It was created in order to let the wider Ada community have a home to meet and talk about Ada. This is a "response" to the lack of an Ada DevRoom @ FOSDEM the past couple of years.
• Alire v2.0 is around the corner
  • Help test the new Release Candidate 1
  • Mac M1 (ARM64) support is in the works. Thanks Simon and Maxim!
• There is now a list of projects to work on in the main Ada-Lang webpage.
  • It focuses of projects that would help the wider Ada community.
• Ada support for org-mode code blocks (babel) is now going to be part of the official org-mode distribution of Emacs!
  • Thanks Francesc for the work!
• The NSA published a list of memory safe languages
  • Ada was not mentioned in the list of programming languages. Nonetheless Ada/SPARK are listed in the references.
  • Ada needs better visibility and "marketing".
• The GCC 14's Ada changelog section is on its way, stay tuned!

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TOC:

• J. P. Rosen. “Report on the ASIS BoF Session: The Future of ASIS and Vendor Independent Tools” 221
• C. Dross. “Containers for Specification in SPARK” 249
• S. Tucker Taft. “Rigorous Pattern Matching as a Language Feature” 255
• L. Humphrey. “Basic Formal Verification of a Waypoint Manager for Unmanned Air Vehicles in SPARK”

🎉 NetBSD has got GNAT 13, gprbuild and Alire!

LibMLKEM: a brand new, formally verified implementation of the post-quantum key exchange algorithm ML-KEM, built with the Ada & SPARK.

Why LibMLKEM?

• Rock-solid security: SPARK's formal verification guarantees no errors, leaks, or type issues.
• Independent & transparent: a completely new take on ML-KEM, free from existing code biases.
• Pushing the boundaries: a benchmark for formal verification tools like SPARK, CBMC, and Kani.

Not production-ready yet!

LibMLKEM is for research and demonstration purposes only. It prioritizes security and verifiability over optimization. The constant time property hasn't verified yet.

📆 I would like to announce the March (2024) Ada Monthly Meetup which will be taking place on the 9th of March at 14:00 UTC time (15:00 CET). As always the meetup will take place over at Jitsi. The Meetup will also be livestreamed to Youtube.

If someone would like to propose a talk or a topic, feel free to do so! We currently have no topics 😉