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vlovich123 • today at 2:58 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

you mean industries where software can kill people like pacemakers?

https://ijcionline.com/paper/13/13224ijci12.pdf

Wow, it’s almost like it’s really hard to get everything perfectly right and this is endemic to software, particularly when the language accepts incorrect code.

The only two things we know mitigate this are proofs (eg rust borrow checker, lean, etc) and DST which is basically the equivalent of accelerated time testing which is done in other industries too. Most people don’t even bother with property testing