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by iLemming·10y ago·view on hn ↗
I was honestly hoping to see a few Lisp, Haskell or Erlang projects. Also it seems NASA engineers are horrible in designing web-pages
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:) hehe - I expected great content and was extra forgiving when waiting for the load to finish. Gave up after 120 seconds and 3 promps to kill the js, never seen my browser behave like this ever
> I was honestly hoping to see a few Lisp, Haskell or Erlang projects.

I've heard that NASA does a fair bit of NodeJS.

> NASA does a fair bit of NodeJS.

Scary. I hope that's limited to web stuff.

They use it for spacesuits. See "Spacesuits and Node.js - How open source will change NASA" by their Director of Software Engineering [0]. Also, "One small step for the Thinker: A case study of RethinkDB at NASA" [1].

[0] https://vimeo.com/168064722

[1] https://rethinkdb.com/blog/nasa-case-study/