On: Sub-millisecond GC pauses in Go 1.8

[kuschku]

You do realize pacemakers nowadays have WiFi and Bluetooth and run on the same platform as other IoT devices?

There was an interesting talk at the Chaos Communications Congress a few years back.

[grogenaut → kuschku]

I'm well aware of this. I'm also aware that people are hacking these devices left and right. But a cow is a mammal and a mammal isn't a cow.

Gp post was not talking about security we're talking about Real time computing. If it's running on IoT hardware, eg rpi running linux, it's likely not doing real time os stuff because linux isn't really a real time os.

And I still don't classify pacemakers as IoT. Just because you want to slap a vague acyronym on any and every "connected" embedded device doesn't mean I agree.

[kuschku → grogenaut]

But that's the thing, there's now a trial for implanted, smart, insulin pumps, running on node.js, connecting to its app via WiFi.

That stuff is IoT in every definition of the word.

[kpil → kuschku]

I know a few software developers that have diabetes, and they seem to be reluctant to automatic pumps.

Monitoring might be fine, but installing something in the body that can kill you and then running it on node.js doesn't seem like a good idea.