> then took a car from the lot and drove it home, no I would not be surprised if it fell apart before getting out of the lot.
Congrats, the brakes failed, you caused bodily damage to an innocent bystander. Do you take full responsibility for that? I guess you do.
Now build a security solution that you sell to millions of users. Have their private data exposed to attackers because you used a third party library that was not properly audited. Do you take any responsibility, beyond the barebones "well I installed their security patches"?
> It is well known that while the pure engineering disciplines, those that make cars and planes and boats, mostly know what they're doing... the software engineering industry knows how to produce code that constantly needs updates and still manages to segfault in so much as a strong breeze, even though memory safety has been a well understood problem for longer than most developers have been alive.
We're aligned there. In a parallel universe, somehow we find a way to converge. Judging by the replies and downvotes, not on this universe.
Congrats, the brakes failed, you caused bodily damage to an innocent bystander. Do you take full responsibility for that? I guess you do.
Now build a security solution that you sell to millions of users. Have their private data exposed to attackers because you used a third party library that was not properly audited. Do you take any responsibility, beyond the barebones "well I installed their security patches"?
> It is well known that while the pure engineering disciplines, those that make cars and planes and boats, mostly know what they're doing... the software engineering industry knows how to produce code that constantly needs updates and still manages to segfault in so much as a strong breeze, even though memory safety has been a well understood problem for longer than most developers have been alive.
We're aligned there. In a parallel universe, somehow we find a way to converge. Judging by the replies and downvotes, not on this universe.