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Why not just set a centralized repository of "industry best practices" and have the law require programmers follow it. If they codify the best practices into law, then they have to change and update the law every time there is an update to the best practices.

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> have the law require programmers follow it

Because that would create a certified profession like doctors and lawyer have to be and that would be bad for 98% of coders out there who don't know the difference between compiler and interpreter.

Have you considered that we certify doctors and lawyers for good reasons and that maybe we should certify software engineers for the same reasons?

"But muh startups, muh innovations!" If the price we have to pay for some fucking accountability in the field is no more techbro startups the contribute to the ruin of society, good. The certification requirements would be doing their jobs.

Yes, I considered that to be a good thing, but I also considered that we're standing on shoulders of giant tech debt. All banks, hospitals, governments and dishwashers run on software now and this needs to be maintained and kept alive.

A collection of government __enforced__ libraries does not sound good to me, for obvious reasons, unless I misunderstood your idea.

I would trust it more than whatever corporate nonsense private sector would come up with

People out here saying they would hate to let the government dictate what libraries their software uses and then turn around and NPM install 2 gigs of dependencies that they can't even name.

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