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Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe by nerdponx on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:23PM (#29489988)
I am mostly curious as to how they came to JS as the embedded scripting language of choice, as opposed to Lua or Scheme or anything else.
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Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe by writeslowly on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:18PM (#29491279)
It would have had to be an interpreter that was available off the shelf when this was being designed (so late 90s or early 2000s?) that ran on vxWorks on an old PowerPC processor. That could have limited the available choices.
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Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe by bumby on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:37PM (#29490161)
"They" is likely the contractor. It may be simply a choice that allowed them to be lowest bidder
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