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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours agoNo, they would not. The kind of software development done in aerospace is very, very different from the commercial industry at large. Writing 20 lines per week might be considered a breakneck pace because of all the formal verification that needs to be done on every single line.
legion02@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Eh, some parts are that critical but also someone has to write the logic for the bathroom occupancy light.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
How many people is that going to employ?
Remember, this thread started by saying “smart people” got sidetracked into IT rather than building rockets. There are a lot of problems with that claim, but at the very least, it has to assume that these less important items would be able to employ lots and lots of programmers.