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Ali Abbas
Ali Abbas

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SpaceX and Javascript🚀

Yes, its damn true.

SpaceX in its recent launch Dragon 2 Flight has used a technology based on Chromium and Javascript

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So Cheers to Javascript. What are your views on this ?

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Ali Abbas

Yeah Exactly they are mature now!

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Ben Halpern

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.

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easrng

Oh god, don't tell me it was electron.

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Ali Abbas • Edited

Hahahha. Yeah really Electron is too heavy.! In this case, I would prefer PyQt

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David Wickes

Nobody told the astronauts, right?

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Questary

Hope so

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Michael Fasani

lol

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HS

Interface as in UI.

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Ali Abbas

Yeah.

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Ali Abbas

Make sense 😂

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Elliot

Typescript? I hope?

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The Mighty Programmer

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.

 
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The Mighty Programmer

Yes, equivalent hardware overrides are in place.

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Try this out first

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