The dog is dead, post nonfunctional code

I led the team that created the JavaScript interpreter JWST is using, and I still occasionally work with them on it. 16 (or so) years ago I was blown away at the amount of research NASA did covering all of the control language options, and of course glad that they selected ours. The language itself wasn’t so important as having adequate performance, robustness, memory use, reproducibility and extreme QC.. the way I remember thinking about it was that when your system is running a million miles away, you can’t send an IT tech to press ctl-alt-del when something goes wrong. IMHO they made a well-researched choice that continues to hold up.