[HN Gopher] The $9B James Webb Space Telescope Runs JavaScript
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       The $9B James Webb Space Telescope Runs JavaScript
        
       Author : jakey_bakey
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-10-24 20:09 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | ninetyninenine wrote:
       | I mean people bitch but I find js to be safer than C++. These
       | kinds of things really need to use rust.
        
         | Koshkin wrote:
         | I doubt that a dynamically typed interpreted language can be
         | "safer" than a statically typed compiled language.
        
           | Pet_Ant wrote:
           | I mean if it prevents pointer arithmetic and use after free
           | it can be.
        
             | Koshkin wrote:
             | In C++ (specifically) one can limit oneself to using safe
             | constructs provided by the standard library. (C is a
             | different story, of course.)
        
       | wormlord wrote:
       | This is cool. It looks like the creator of the ScriptEase engine
       | wrote about it here [0].
       | 
       | It would be cool to see a style or testing guide to see how they
       | prevented bugs from shipping.
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       | [0] https://brent-noorda.com/nombas/us/index.htm
        
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