Broken software does not typically kill people or makes you loose money (time or some other resources, maybe).
In contrast bridges that fall apart tend to kill people in a nasty way. They are also quite hard to reboot.
In contrast bridges that fall apart tend to kill people in a nasty way. They are also quite hard to reboot.
There's plenty of carefully-written, rigorously-tested code out there. Want to write software for air travel, drug manufacturing, or space flight? You'll have no choice but to write safe, first-rate code.
Want a smartphone weather app written to those standards? Well, for $50 and a feature set five years behind the state of the art, you can have it.