> NOTE: down to 36% from 65% because of moving from C++ to Rust and other memory safe languages
Imagine if in any other field, a process or technology were developed that cuts the number of high-severity issues in half.
For example, a modification to the standard anesthesia protocols that demonstrably reduces anesthesia-related fatalities by 50% in clinical practice.
And now imagine, in reaction to this revolutionary development, thousands of anesthesiologists publicly said things like "what matters is not the technique but the skill of the physician", "good anesthesiologists don't make mistakes like that in the first place", "but this new technique takes 1%-3% longer than the previous one" or similar.
Utterly unthinkable, isn't it?
Yet in software engineering, this is exactly what has been happening every day for more than a decade.
Imagine if in any other field, a process or technology were developed that cuts the number of high-severity issues in half.
For example, a modification to the standard anesthesia protocols that demonstrably reduces anesthesia-related fatalities by 50% in clinical practice.
And now imagine, in reaction to this revolutionary development, thousands of anesthesiologists publicly said things like "what matters is not the technique but the skill of the physician", "good anesthesiologists don't make mistakes like that in the first place", "but this new technique takes 1%-3% longer than the previous one" or similar.
Utterly unthinkable, isn't it?
Yet in software engineering, this is exactly what has been happening every day for more than a decade.