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Also: software (at least the kind of software that results from hype-driven development) is much less dangerous, and there's a lot less that can go wrong if it fails. If you're working on a new kind of process for making some food ingredient you can easily do it wrong and poison someone, so people are naturally more cautious about trying new things. It's the same with software for e.g. nuclear reactors or plane controls, which is why we don't see them being written with microservices and Typescript.


What programming languages are typically used in such high risk scenarios


Ada was the DoD standard for a while.




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