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Re:Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traff... by jmspring on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:16AM (#9105674)
This makes me wonder where the threads (beyond server scaling) around resiliency on HN are. I'm doing some non-critical embedded programming at the moment (typically do full stack stuff), but embedded and critical systems are much different than the typical audience here....
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Re:Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traff... by na85 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:30AM (#9105705)
It's easier, flashier, and more immediately gratifying to slap together a new javascript framework.

Embedded is hard.

Fault-tolerant is hard.

Debugging is hard and also very tedious.

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Re:Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America's Air Traff... by davidw on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @03:03AM (#9105785)
It's way easier to build a web company than something that involves difficult programming, may well involve hardware, and probably doesn't have the upside potential that a web thing does. That's why there isn't as much of that kind of thing.

That said, I love to read about embedded stuff, because some of those guys are really sharp. I'm also a user and fan of Erlang.

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