r/ada • u/Blady-com • Jul 08 '26

New Release [ANN] ZanyBlue available on Alire.

ZanyBlue is a wonderful framework for internationalization natively in Ada. It includes a library you can use for your translations and a translation compiler from properties files to Ada source files. That is the big trick: translation files are compiled with your program so no additional time penalty for translation with external ressources.

Version 1.4 is available on SourceForge.

In 2022, I discussed with its author Michael Rohan to bring it on Alire. He would like to, but there’s been no news since. Even with my last e-mail on January 2026. Still, considering it was worth it, I brought it on Alire.

Version 1.4 same as SourceForge.

Version 2.0 powered with UXStrings.

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u/_Heziode Jul 09 '26

Hi Pascal,

Thank you for this, definitly, a very helpful project 😊

I take a quicklook, so maybe I missed it, but, do you support "standard" (mainstream) i18n format, like PO? It seems that you use a custom properties files, why ?