Comments by "Vitaly L" (@vitalyl1327) on "Prime Reacts: Software Engineering is In Decline" video.

I can sort of see where he's coming from. As a primarily hardware engineer, I do indeed feel this frustration - having all the cool formal verification tools in hardware and seeing software world being so reluctant to adopt even the most primitive forms of it makes one ponder about the future of the software engineering. Software engineering is so resistant to become, well, an actual engineering, where responsibility and safety is a key.
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@teckyify it can and will happen, but javascript coders are not even aware of memory leaks they are causing, while industrial C programmers have MISRA C. And, anyway, all such things must be coded in PLC languages.
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@alexanderlanz9712 The fun part here is that although safety requires an upfront investment, it cost less in a long run. Bad quality code piles up problems and explodes complexity until you cannot maintain it any more. High quality code causes much less problems in long run. Too bad code monkeys very rarely think long term.
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Software complexity does not match the functionality complexity most of the time. Pretty much every single bit of software you can name can be implemented orders of magnitude simpler without losing a single bit of functionality.
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@monad_tcp of course, the whole point of MISRA C is that the entire code base must conform. If you have a tainted part, it breaks safety guarantees for the rest. In automotive and aerospace it is very often a requirement, no tainted code is allowed, no matter what.
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@zesky6654 well, who would have thought, business is incapable of self-regulating. This is exactly what government is for. Otherwise we would have witch doctors in hospitals (they're cheaper!), kids with an experience of assembling a lego set once building bridges, etc. So why it is ok to have self-taughts and bootcamp graduates to develop software, while it is obvious for everyone that a witch doctor in a hospital is a bad idea?
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