This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[Everlast]

On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 19:50:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880722
>
> Typical comments:
>
> "`assertAndContinue` crashes in dev and logs an error and keeps 
> going in prod. Each time we want to verify a runtime 
> assumption, we decide which type of assert to use. We prefer 
> `assertAndContinue` (and I push for it in code review),"
>
> "Stopping all executing may not be the correct 'safe state' for 
> an airplane though!"
>
> "One faction believed you should never intentionally crash the 
> app"
>
> "One place I worked had a team that was very adamant about not 
> really having much error checking. Not much of any qc process, 
> either. Wait for someone to complain about bad data and 
> respond. Honestly, this worked really well for small, 
> skunkworks type projects that needed to be nimble."
>
> And on and on. It's unbelievable. The conventional wisdom in 
> software for how to deal with programming bugs simply does not 
> exist.
>
> Here's the same topic on Reddit with the same awful ideas:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9bl72d/assertions_in_production_code/
>
> No wonder that DVD players still hang when you insert a DVD 
> with a scratch on it, and I've had a lot of DVD and Bluray 
> players over the last 20 years. No wonder that malware is 
> everywhere.

It's because programming is done completely wrong. All we do is 
program like it's 1952 all wrapped up in a nice box and bow tie. 
WE should have tools and a compiler design that all work 
interconnected with complete graphical interfaces that aren't 
based in the text gui world(an IDE is just a fancy text editor). 
I'm talking about 3D code representation using graphics so 
projects can be navigated  visually in a dynamic way and many 
other things.

The current programming model is reaching diminishing returns. 
Programs cannot get much more complicated because the environment 
in which they are written cannot support them(complexity != size).

We have amazing tools available to do amazing things but 
programming is still treated like punch cards, just on acid. I'd 
like to get totally away from punch cards.

I total rewrite of all aspects of programming should be done(from 
"object" files(no more, they are not needed, at least not in the 
form they are), the IDE(it should be more like a video game(in 
the sense of graphical use) and provide extensive information and 
debugging support all at a finger tip away), from the tools, to 
the design of applications, etc.

One day we will get there...