Ada, the Surprisingly Resilient Programming Language

Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen predicts that Ada, a system programming language dating back to the late 1970s, might outlast contemporaries like Visual Basic, Perl, and Fortran. While top languages like Python, C#, and Java have seen little change in Tiobe's index over the past two years, older languages show more fluctuation. Jansen bets on Ada's survival due to its strength in safety-critical systems, a domain with growing security demands. Currently, Ada ranks 10th in the index, tied with Delphi/Object Pascal.