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I hope that those of us who sold our souls for money while knowing full well the history around Therac-25 aren’t eclipsed by a generation who gave even more for

• sealeck 4y ago
  Rewriting TypeScript code in Rust (or writing what would have been TypeScript in Rust instead) is in no way morally analagous to Therac-25. This is the kind of claim that Haskell programmers make on the basis that they believe Haskell prevents faults (providing no specific evidence - in contrast to Rust, which draws on numerous data showing that memory safety is a serious concern) in computer software. The core problem in Therac-25 was exactly this - the programmers thought they were very good at writing software (when they were not) and decided to remove the hardware safety restrictions (which they should have not done, even if they were really good computer programmers). It wasn't about type systems, it was about hubris and real-world hardware.