Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Award

The challenge

We’re calling on developers across the globe to grow the ecosystem of Alire Ada and SPARK software and are offering $6,000 in total prizes. Why? Well, the Ada programming language was designed from its inception to be used in applications where safety and security are of the utmost importance and with the increased need for trustworthy software, we want to encourage the use of Ada/SPARK.

We want you to demonstrate your inventiveness and build safe, secure and reliable software that matters.

The Technology

Alire is a catalog of ready-to-use Ada/SPARK libraries plus a command-line tool (alr) to obtain, build, and incorporate them into your own projects. It aims to fulfill a similar role to Rust’s cargo or OCaml’s opam.

Prizes

We are giving away thousands of dollars in prizes to the best Alire crate in 3 categories:

  • $2,000 for the Ada Crate Of The Year
  • $2,000 for the SPARK Crate Of The Year
  • $2,000 for the Embedded Crate Of The Year

Our judges are going to pick the best qualifying projects based on the judging criteria outlined in the rules section.

How to enter?

Read the competition rules here and open an issue on this repository.

Entries

You can find the list of entries here.