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I guess it comes down to what you mean by "important". I for one hope that airplanes, power plants and medical machinery are all programmed with something else.
by fnordsensei 10y ago
I guess it comes down to what you mean by "important". I for one hope that airplanes, power plants and medical machinery are all programmed with something else.
- lttlrck 10y agoIf the author had said the same thing about <insert any language> that would have been wrong too...
- Skunkleton 10y agoIt sure would have been.
- debaserab2 10y agocorrect
- fnordsensei 10y agoAgreed.
- SomeCallMeTim 10y agoI never claimed that JavaScript was or should be used in any of the above. Just that it's "important in software engineering", by which I mean it's used or usable by people in 80% of the actual jobs in "software engineering." I'd probably prefer to see a language like Go or Rust in critical systems. Self driving cars come to mind as well, but probably anything IoT or otherwise infrastructure related. But I think those jobs, all together, are a minority of programming positions. I hope so, anyway, because I don't actually believe there are enough smart developers to work on critical systems if it's anything like half or more of the software engineering population. Most developers pretty well suck.
- fnordsensei 10y agoI didn't mean to imply that you made such a claim. It was just a way to point out an alternative interpretation of "important." That is, some things may be of greater importance even if there are fewer of them. It's nitpicking really, I understand that you had a particular perspective on what "important" meant in this case.