Apollo 11's Code Is Better Than Yours

You can open a tab right now and read the flight code that landed on the moon. It has been on GitHub since 2016. A former NASA intern named Chris Garry uploaded the files for the lunar module, Luminary099, and for the command module, Comanche055. These are not reconstructions, not transcripts; they are the actual assembly files, complete with the comments written by the people who were, at the time, trying to keep three astronauts alive. The first thing you notice isn't the math. It's that the...