The jokes really write themselves. It's _very_ easy to get subtle bugs in JavaScript code. Odd choice for critical code deployed to space.
Hmm. The $9 billion James Webb Space Telescope is driven by "on-board scripts, written in a.. version of JavaScript" http://www.stsci.edu/~idash/pub/dashevsky0607rcsgso.pdf …
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And then there is this, unfortunately paywalled: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1289022 …pic.twitter.com/qw6njEzvqQ
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Quickly skimming the papers, they're big on the event-driven / asynchronous nature of JS. I presume that's a big motivation for the choice.
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it’s true
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It seems really odd. I've come to quite enjoy JS (especially ES 2015 etc), & it does have some nice features. But putting
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