@matrix just wait until 2040, when spacex's starship lands on mars with their new UI running on electron.

@dyske
I'm willing to bet $100 dollars that their current UI is already using it.

@matrix hm... I mean the animations do look pretty fancy, but can you imagine the paperwork they would need to fill in to justify their node_modules folder?

@dyske
Storage is pretty cheap nowadays. I think you can spare a few GBs for it.

@matrix storage is. But radiation hardened compute isn't. Though spacex uses off-the-shelf components with replicated computations, I don't think they want to waste it on chromium instance.

@matrix ok you win: https://web.archive.org/web/20200615195428/https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/spacexs-crew-dragon-touchscreen-is-powered-by-javascript-cbc5a6781570

@matrix oh wait. damn medium

@matrix ok this one mentions chromium as well
https://medium.com/@ixperiential.media/ui-ux-aboard-the-spacex-dragon-4056a86295ab

@dyske
And I just threw a random guess
Although I think you could argue that using languages like JS is better from a safety perspective as they have a more advanced error handling.