On: LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app

[kreetx]

Interestingly, there was news on some satellite running javascript. But I wonder if the core was running something else, and peripherals were run with js -- and simply restarted when they died, Erlang style.

[adev_ → kreetx]

> Interestingly, there was news on some satellite running javascript.

It does not mean it runs JS for anything critical, and very likely it does not.

My car entertainment system (GUI) run JS, and I'm fine with it. I would not if it would run on the emergency breaking system...

[ComputerGuru → kreetx]

JS requires a runtime, so by definition there would have to be something (even if it’s just a bastardized gc-free version of JS itself).

[saagarjha → ComputerGuru]

Technically so do the native platform frameworks: they just come with the system.