Comment by liontwist
1 day ago
> Software development isn’t free
Part of the burden of this is on us.
If a digital camera OS is a small embedded system running on a microcontroller it has a fixed cost, and lasts forever, just like the electrical components.
If it’s an instance of chromium running on Ubuntu server or Android, with hundreds of dependencies in your program alone than the cost to stop it from bricking is effectively infinite. (I’m even aware of medical surgery devices using Electron these days)
The Dragon spacecraft uses Electron as well.
I would not make that choice, but At least that has someone looking at it everyday. It’s not a device that gets left to do its job for 5 years.
Those early chromium devs had no idea the whole world would depend on them!