The software industry (SWIND for short) is a mixture of unsafe tooling, high-risk practices, sloppy execution, and total delegation of responsibility. So I agre

The software industry (SWIND for short) is a mixture of unsafe tooling, high-risk practices, sloppy execution, and total delegation of responsibility. So I agree that the SWIND will never be civil engineering. ^_^ A buyer might accept to buy a product without understanding its fitness for purpose, but the vendor should be selling a product that a) does what it claims, and b) can be run safely and securely. (a) is the art of software development, which you describe. If the buyer and vendor agree on "robustness", there will be design choices and acceptance testing. But (b) does involve some of (a) if we start to question the shop tools of the vendor. Given that (b) is fundamentally a problem with bad shop tools (a.k.a. language "foot-guns") and education, a major shift needs to happen in SWIND. > advocated for by people and organizations who want to sell books, seminars, and conferences. The publishing business is just one of several economies that live on software. Some of it is good. I think it is beneficial to raise awareness of the need for better shop tools. The ambulance-chasing economy of software security is even bigger than publishing. There are some big shops using bad tools. ^_^