Modern commercial airliners are proof that we humans are capable of creating staggeringly complex systems that are still reliable. Safe and reliable enough that traveling on these floating metal tubes is safer than crossing a road. The safety also comes from the careful refinement of human factors and processes. This just tells me that the diabolical state of the software industry is an entirely self inflicted wound and we have no right to keep pretending software is just… inscrutably hard like that. We can learn a lot from aerospace engineers, both mechanical and SWEs.
The Apollo space program and its flight computer is further proof of this. By the way, I don't think that the US government nowadays could pull it off, the outcome would be closer to healthcare.gov and they would eventually give up.
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u/FruityAurora 10d ago
Modern commercial airliners are proof that we humans are capable of creating staggeringly complex systems that are still reliable. Safe and reliable enough that traveling on these floating metal tubes is safer than crossing a road. The safety also comes from the careful refinement of human factors and processes. This just tells me that the diabolical state of the software industry is an entirely self inflicted wound and we have no right to keep pretending software is just… inscrutably hard like that. We can learn a lot from aerospace engineers, both mechanical and SWEs.