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I can't believe you're comparing developing desktop apps to surgery and civil engineering. The stakes here are zero. This is what open source software is all ab

• TeMPOraL 3y ago
  > The stakes here are zero. For most, yes. But for software where stakes are non-zero, for software where errors could kill people or cause billions of dollars of damage, the tooling is... exactly the same. For example, the infamous "Industry 4.0" and "Industrial IoT" buzz-phrases are, in big part, about your usual garden quality open source software - mostly webshit - orchestrating the actual control systems in factories and manufacturing plants. I shudder to think what "Industry 5.0" will look like.