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Comment by ivanperez-keera

One day I'll learn rust and maybe then I'll understand.

> live with developing processes to stay on top of updates like the rest of us?

NASA follows very robust software engineering processes (even for research projects like e.g., Copilot and, to a lesser extend, Ogma). It would not be able to do what it does if it didn't.

This is a topic for a longer discussion and definitely not to be had here, but I will say that it's not conductive to a constructive discussion to see it as a problem with our processes, or us ("developing processes to stay on top of updates", "like the rest of us").

The people who work on these things are smart. This is a topic we've had long discussions on. If it was obvious or viable to fix internally, we would have done it already.

I have been programming in particular in Haskell for 20y. I've worked for all kinds of companies and organizations, big and small, for the last 18y. I am like the rest of us. The problem is not exclusive to NASA, and NASA's processes are not to blame here.

It's a problem with how to build languages and ecosystems.

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