[cosmotic]

There are a lot of alternative programming languages that those companies could have used. There's no GPS alternative for Uber.

[aunderscored]

GLONASS, But that's splitting hairs

[cpursley]

GLONASS is pretty underrated. For example, it powers a whole bunch of vital farm equipment in the US.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/invas...

[seized]

Although the Russian air force planes with a Garmin taped to the control panel may indicate otherwise on that technology....

[cpursley]

I get it, reddit is a fun place to beat up on the Ruskies. But the usage of a Garmin doesn't mean GLONASS is bad.

GPS and GLONASS use different frequencies and redundant signaling systems is common in aviation.

And Garmin actually works with both for a more accurate location:

https://www.getaway.co.za/gear-reviews/news/garmin-russian-s...

[squarefoot]

It could also be a way to better resist to jamming or (government mandated) data pollution by matching the data from the two receivers for significant differences. I'm 100% pro-Ukraine but that looks a smart move to me.

[notagoodidea]

Galileo:P

[fabianhjr]

And now also BeiDou, QZSS, and IRNSS-NAVIC.

[treeman79]

Alt to php at that point in time was usually Perl.

Don’t think Facebook would have succeeded with Perl.

[nequo]

What about Perl would have made Facebook fail? I don't particularly like Perl but I'm curious.

[fabianhjr]

You don't get it, Facebook wasn't just a CRUD from the start and had some niche programming language needs. /s

:P

[icedchai]

Is there a reason Apache w/mod_perl wouldn't have worked?