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Fabien Chouteau

Fabien joined AdaCore in 2010 after his engineering degree at the EPITA (Paris). He is involved in real-time, embedded and hardware simulation technology. Maker/DIYer in his spare time, his projects include electronics, music and woodworking.

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Jan 31, 2023

Fabien Chouteau

Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year 2022 Winners Announced!

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Jan 12, 2023

Fabien Chouteau

Advent of Ada/SPARK 2022 Results

At the end of November we called the Ada and SPARK programmers community to take on a challenge for a good cause. We are now in January and it is…

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Jan 10, 2023

Fabien Chouteau

Our Contribution to the Ada Logo Discussion

From time to time we see, here and there, discussions in the Ada community about the design and adoption of a common logo to represent the language.…

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Dec 06, 2022

Fabien Chouteau

Coroutines in Ada, a Clean but Heavy Implementation

A few months ago I was reading this article about coroutines in game development and how they are great tools for writing scripts (as in movie…

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Nov 24, 2022

Fabien Chouteau

Tis the Season to be Giving falalalala lalalala

Every year since 2015, a team of dedicated individuals led by Eric Wastl organizes an online programming challenge called: Advent of Code. The…

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Nov 07, 2022

Fabien Chouteau

NVIDIA Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?”

Today I want to share a great story about why many NVIDIA products are now running formally verified SPARK code. This blog post is in part a teaser…

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Aug 25, 2022

Fabien Chouteau

Embedded Ada/SPARK, There's a Shortcut

For years in this blog my colleagues and I have published examples, demos, and how-to’s on Ada/SPARK embedded (as in bare-metal) development. Most of…

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Jun 28, 2022

Fabien Chouteau

Announcing The 2022 Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Award

We're happy to announce our the second edition of our programming competition, the Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Award! We believe the Alire package…

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Jun 02, 2022

Fabien Chouteau

A New Era For Ada/SPARK Open Source Community

Today we have two exciting announcements for the future of the Ada/SPARK ecosystem.

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Mar 10, 2022

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Quite Proved Image Format

A few weeks ago a piece of code went viral in the online dev community. The “Quite OK Image Format” (QOI) is a fast, lossless image compression…

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Mar 08, 2022

Fabien Chouteau

Ada GameDev Part 2: Making 2D maps with Tiled

In this second post of the Ada GameDev series we will see how to create game maps and export them to a format that is compatible with the GESTE…

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Feb 28, 2022

Fabien Chouteau

Ada GameDev Part 1: GEneric Sprite and Tile Engine (GESTE)

In this first entry of the series, I want to present my GEneric Sprite and Tile Engine (GESTE) project. The goal of GESTE is to bring the rendering…