&gt; Much of the F-35&#x27;s software is written in C and C++ due to programmer availability<p>This sounds ridiculous. Surely it would be very easy to get as many programmers as they wanted for whatever tech they need with the 1 trillion USD that they have.<p>It would be fine if C++ was the best tool for the job, but I suspect it isn&#x27;t. If it is not the best tool for the job, then whatever is gained in &quot;programmer availability&quot; is lost in productivity, correctness, reliability or whatever metric a fighter jet&#x27;s software development is measured against.<p>Furthermore, this whole IT industry fetish with hiring for a particular programming language is completely misguided. Domain knowledge is usually the bottleneck. I&#x27;d expect that to be even more so in flight or sensor software.