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> I left because the space industry moves at quite a slow pace compared to the rest of the software world and I was tired of working on one small piece of softw

> I left because the space industry moves at quite a slow pace compared to the rest of the software world and I was tired of working on one small piece of software while the world was changing around me... Would love it if you could shed some more light on this point :) Was it that you were using an old programming language or something? It's hard for me to believe that the space industry didn't present some pretty awesome opportunities to use your brain. Sometimes building CRUD apps with the latest X framework is just too damn easy.

starpilot 9y ago
The thing with mission critical systems is boring == safe. So conservatism is endemic in aerospace where stakes are high.
ranman 9y ago
I wasn’t working on any code that was changing rapidly. I was basically making small tweaks to existing projects without the opportunity to refactor. The work being done by the whole company was fascinating... the small part of that I was working on was somewhat mind numbing. I kept doing some one off projects that were fun for a day or two but nothing that took multiple months or people to build and get into production. Nothing that I was personally super proud of. Others were in more substantial projects and probably enjoyed their work more.