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by VienneseCPA 4097 days ago
When your software aspires to move billions of dollars of value, it would ideally be written in Ada.

That said, I agree that C# and Java are good options.

What's hilarious is all of the Bitcoin startups that are running on node.js and mongodb. Would you put your kids on a flight if you knew the control system was written with javascript and mongodb? Yikes.
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rational-future 4097 days ago
You are partially right. It is completely possible to write in JS/Mongo systems as robust as Ada/Oracle|DB2|SQL Server. You just have to know what you are doing. There is no magic in Ada, Oracle, etc.

Node and Mongo are moving hundreds of billions daily in HFS shops.

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SkyMarshal 4095 days ago
>There is no magic in Ada, Oracle, etc.

There is no magic but there are strong constraints that shift reliance for correctness from fallible human programmers and peripheral tools to the type system and compiler, providing better integrated, systematic assurance.

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lectrick 4097 days ago
Actually, having met a few of them, a surprising number are using PHP, which made me quite angry lol.
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