I beg your pardon, Separation of concerns is a fundamental principle of good engineering practice and that seems to be what the debate is about. I gave a couple

I beg your pardon, Separation of concerns is a fundamental principle of good engineering practice and that seems to be what the debate is about. I gave a couple examples in my comment, not just a vague dismissal (and it's not like SoC needs me to defend it). OP's article made a few unsubstantiated claims about ECC and silent corruption. These are presented as reasons to abandon the entire approach of "programming to an abstraction of a perfect machine" rather than just addressing the allegedly insufficient failsafes directly.