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Probably the usual aerospace stack: C/C++ and Ada doing the heavy lifting. Since memory is no longer a (significant) space constraint in 2021, I suspect other h

Probably the usual aerospace stack: C/C++ and Ada doing the heavy lifting. Since memory is no longer a (significant) space constraint in 2021, I suspect other high level languages are also used for the non-critical parts of the system.

virgil_disgr4ce 6y ago
> Since memory is no longer a (significant) space constraint in 2021 Is this definitely true in the context of astronautics?
- bootloop 6y ago
  The main computer of Perseverance (and Curiosity) has 256 megabytes of RAM. Which is only twice of what Spirit and Opportunity had so I wouldn't call this a significant increase. (Even Pathfinder had 128 in 1997 but wasn't a rover.)
harveywi 6y ago
> memory is no longer a (significant) space constraint I see what you did there.
- sul_tasto 6y ago
  the universe is expanding, after all...