The claim that Ada is dead or otherwise unused is total FUD. I make a good living with my day job using Ada exclusively and I could find another such job in a week if I wanted to change companies. Ada is a cool language - there is nothing, not even plain C, that is better suited for programming safe, secure & reliable embedded systems, web servers, etc. There is a shortage of compilers for small 8-bit microcontroller targets but that's a market problem, not a technical problem.