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by throwaway31338 2203 days ago
Using a gigantic overly complex software written in a non-memory-safe language for a system that gives commands to the flight control system?

This is how you get the Cylons pwning your spaceships. >sigh<

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We get it, you like Go. Meanwhile they are in space tho..
Isn't mission critical software overwhelmingly C++?
A lot of Ada as well.
Adama wouldn't have worried so much about networked ships if the people who programmed this ship programmed Battlestars. They still used COBOL.
They still used COBOL.

But they were experts in using it, some even say Lords