The recent SpaceX Dragon launch brings JavaScript to space. Leveraging Chromium and JavaScript, significant portions of the user interface rely on web technologies.
Controlling a spaceship with a tablet seems terrifying. It’s like the tablets in cars turned up to 11.
Granted, they still have physical buttons for important things, and a lot of the stuff they’ve using the tablet for probably isn’t all that time sensitive, but still. Imagine being in orbit and still having to deal with some laggy Chromium UI!
Controlling a spaceship with a tablet seems terrifying. It’s like the tablets in cars turned up to 11.
Granted, they still have physical buttons for important things, and a lot of the stuff they’ve using the tablet for probably isn’t all that time sensitive, but still. Imagine being in orbit and still having to deal with some laggy Chromium UI!