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You can do bugs in any language. The problem here was monoculture and critical dependence on one supplier, not a programming language choice
by trustno2 2y ago
You can do bugs in any language. The problem here was monoculture and critical dependence on one supplier, not a programming language choice
- pdimitar 2y agoI'd argue it's several things, these two things included. To screw up so legendarily requires a concert of bad decisions.
- lambdaone 2y agoYes. The term "normalization of deviance" comes to mind. Even just a phased rollout would have caught this one with just a tiny fraction of the damage observed.
- lambdaone 2y agoYou can indeed write buggy/unsafe code in any language. But it's a lot easier to do in notoriously unsafe languages like C/C++, which for some maniacal reason we seem to have based the world's digital infrastructure on. C++ was a terrible, terrible mistake.