I was going to say that as well. I only more recently hopped on the train, but I didn't see anything which would be problematic for Ada 2012. I've had no problems in my projects doing bit manipulation, using function pointers, dynamic dispatch, or interfacing with C code which uses `void*`.

> this is largely an artifact of Ada syntax being more verbose

There's a very negative connotation of "verbose" like it's the worst thing in the world. The better way of describing this is the language is explicit and focuses on describing intent. This means it doesn't take long to learn to read and understand standard library code or code from other projects.