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> and please far away from any safety critical code To a rough approximation nobody in the software engineering industry works on safety critical code. It come
by kortilla 5y ago
> and please far away from any safety critical code
To a rough approximation nobody in the software engineering industry works on safety critical code. It comes with an onerous set of restrictions and criteria to do it well, including fully analyzing all of your dependencies for runtime behavior, etc.
If you think applying that to the vast majority of software engineering makes any sense, you’re going to fail hard. It’s no different than applying the rigor that goes into engineering a fan blade on a GE90 to a toilet flush handle on a household toilet.
- ShroudedNight 5y agoI would frame what you describe as Safety Critical Code™, and agree with your assessment that very few work on such things. I expect a lot more of us work on safety critical code that doesn't fall into the first category. Stuff that we rely on to produce results in a reliably timely matter whose failure results in material degredation of someone's quality of life. As an example: The Alexa communication infrastructure has been used to save lives, but Alexa devices are not "Life Saving" or "Medical" devices. I believe we spurn the duty of disciplined engineering at our peril.