• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    My understanding is that in space systems, generally robustness trumps everything else, so old stable versions of everything are preferred. So it’s generally a very conservative software stack and process.

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      21 hours ago

      generally robustness trumps everything else

      Theoretically

      So it’s generally a very conservative software stack and process.

      Yes, but that sort of process promotes non-adoption of techniques and processes that could increase robustness but are shunned due to pessimistic conservativeness

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        21 hours ago

        Oh yes absolutely. I was not trying to justify the design choices, just trying to explain their internal rationale.