uecker 5 days ago

Let's turn it around: Do you think the mining guy that does not care about safety will start caring about a safety culture because there is a new safety tool? And if it is mandated by government, will it be implemented in a meaningful way, or just on paper?

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tialaramex 5 days ago

So there's a funny thing about mouthing the words, the way the human mind works the easiest way to explain to ourselves why we're mouthing the words is that we agree with them. And so in that sense what seems like a useless paper exercise can be effective.

Also, relevantly here, nobody actually wants these terrible bugs. This is not A or B, Red or Blue, this is very much Cake or Death and like, there just aren't any people queueing up for Death, there are people who don't particularly want Cake but that's not the same thing at all.

pjmlp 5 days ago

It will certainly be implemented in a meaningful way, if the consequences for the mining guy are hard enough that there won't be a second failure done by the same person.

Hence why I am so into cybersecurity laws, and if this is the only way to make C and C++ communities embrace a safety culture, instead of downplaying it as straitjacket programming like in the C vs Pascal/Modula-2 Usenet discussion days, then so be it.