Yes, its damn true.
SpaceX in its recent launch Dragon 2 Flight has used a technology based on Chromium and Javascript
CGPA Calculator - CGPA Converter to Percentage
So Cheers to Javascript. What are your views on this ?
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Yeah Exactly they are mature now!
I presume it was not the programming language's fault that those Boeing planes crashed tragically last year. So it won't be JavaScript's fault if things go wrong here. It's just one choice in a set of many tools to get the job done. Hopefully all necessary precautions were made and it was not used to do the things the language might be terrible at.
Oh god, don't tell me it was electron.
Hahahha. Yeah really Electron is too heavy.! In this case, I would prefer PyQt
Nobody told the astronauts, right?
Hope so
lol
Interface as in UI.
Yeah.
Make sense 😂
Typescript? I hope?
It is not about JavaScript maturity; it is about design choice. Garbage Collectors based languages are not used in mission-critical tasks because they may turn non-deterministic. It is not with C and C++ because, as a programmer, you control all the aspects.
Yes, equivalent hardware overrides are in place.
Try this out first
Using any language or runtime is acceptable as long as they handle the risks properly.
I wonder if they added an F5 button? Just in case...
Haha, I bet they have Ctrl+R too!
Brendan must be so proud his passion project broke through the stratosphere, (even if only for a UI). 🌟
I wonder why CommonLISP (or any robust LISPy code system) isn't used more ubiquitously for highly-dependable systems.
Don't know a whole ton about C or C++, just know LISP can address all their concerns plus virtually everything else in Computer Science (being based of Church's λ-Calculus) with an AST comparably faster, safer, and superiorly abstracted than C.
Am I tripping?
This sheds a very ugly light on SpaceX and their commitment to quality. I mean, managing something as risky and complex as a rocket with a web browser and a language as frail as Javascript? A language that converts everything in everything else, making equality not transitive? A language that allows this
destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat ?
No, definitively it is not acceptable, even if it controls just some minor stuff. A bug there could trigger a cascade.
Yet they managed to dock into the ISS successfully. Is that unacceptable to you too? You would've coded the ui with assembler I assume.
People trash languages just for trashing them. It literally doesn't matter if you get to space with that, you won't be taken seriously. I don't find the logic in that argument.
Bugs speak more to the developer than the language. People bash JavaScript because they jump in without understanding it.
They might be used tensorflow js
No. They are using Javacript for UI Interface
Good stuff!
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