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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
OMG. I worked at JPL on Scheme In Space and our dialect went the other way: more static, mostly immutable.
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Replying to @abecedarius
Yeah, that makes quite a bit of sense.
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