https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/spark/ Recent content in Spark on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-14-ada-spark-toolchain-alire-gnat-studio-gnatprove-guide/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-09-14-ada-spark-toolchain-alire-gnat-studio-gnatprove-guide/ <p>Ada has an unfair reputation problem: engineers hear &ldquo;safety-critical&rdquo; and assume the language is slow, the tooling is locked behind expensive support contracts, and the compiler only exists on a vendor&rsquo;s laptop. That was true in 1995. In 2026 the entire Ada and SPARK toolchain is open source, installs in under ten minutes, and does something no mainstream language can match out of the box: it can mathematically prove your code will not raise a runtime error.</p>