Ada Monthly Meeting March 2024 topics

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!