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 …
The jokes really write themselves. It's _very_ easy to get subtle bugs in JavaScript code. Odd choice for critical code deployed to space.
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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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OMG. I worked at JPL on Scheme In Space and our dialect went the other way: more static, mostly immutable.
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Yeah, that makes quite a bit of sense.
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easy to get subtle bugs in any language - depends on the programmer(s) & Q/A team really. Hopefully they have great ones!
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