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Best practices are subjective. What is best practice is for C is not the same as Python.

SQL DBs provide consistency guarantees around mutating linked lists. It’s not hard to do that in code and use any data storage format.

Imo software engineers have made software “too literal” and generated a bunch of “products” to pitch in meetings. This is all constraints on electron state given an application. A whole lot of books are sold about unit tests but I know from experience a whole lot of critical software systems have zero modern test coverage. A lot of myths about the necessity of this and that to software have been hyped to sell stock in software companies the last couple decades.

As a conceptual body it has the authority. The meat bags currently running the show have no motivation. Of course they too are Americans and would deflate their value by changing the rules, which is the problem with thought ending populist chants and mantras like “no new taxes!”

The public is “data structure” illiterate. They’re educated with spoken traditions coupled to vague imagery of hierarchical power structures of history and the work place. I am not sure it’s intentional, more of a Duning-Kruger thing.

As usual any sustained shift in the appropriation of agency is up to the public. Science shows us how to build things, but no theory states “we must build rockets to nowhere.” But “keep your hands off muh capitalism click clack” gets in the way of sincere discussion of fully automated logistics.

Protectionism of spoken tradition in human memory is not going away anytime soon. It’s innate to our biology.