NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
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Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#2Important addendum: Node is not for real-time safety-critical systems https://mobile.twitter.com/d4rw1n1s7/status/7430105947862507...
Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#3Important addendum: Node is not for real-time safety-critical systems https://mobile.twitter.com/d4rw1n1s7/status/7430105947862507...
"Not in the way you are probably thinking, but used for ground ops leading to spacewalks, checks and balances obv" - Collin Estes
Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#4Important addendum: Node is not for real-time safety-critical systems https://mobile.twitter.com/d4rw1n1s7/status/7430105947862507...
"Not in the way you are probably thinking, but used for ground ops leading to spacewalks, checks and balances obv" - Collin Estes
There's a whole bunch of space system support software that isn't hard scientific code (which is handled by a totally different team), but rather for specific management-related tasks. This code is written in all the web technologies and frameworks one would expect.
Edit: I'm wondering about the downvotes, since I've actually written such software.
Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#5Why would NASA somehow be invincible to hype?
Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#6Presentation at EnterpriseJS Austin:
Spacesuits and Node.js - How open source will change NASA
Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#7So now we update the saying to "JavaScript is eating the universe", right?
Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#8Made me think of Lisp at JPL, one of my favourite software-dev history stories.
http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#9Misleading title
> Just to be clear Node.js does not run IN a spacesuit. It does however support spacesuit operations, processing, logistics, etc...
(source: https://twitter.com/CollinEstes/status/741994459349417984)
Re: NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms
#10It's always nice to feel appreciated, but the validation-seeking pile-on in that Twitter thread is a little awkward.
Reward yourself with a cookie then go read your Github Issues tab, guys...