I have my editor configured with zero highlighting for keywords and syntactic elements. Admittedly, I have compilation/lint/syntax/type check errors set to invert the erroneous block, black background white text.

Syntax and keyword highlighting is just noise given I’ve been trained by decades of colourblind unfriendly interfaces

Until that slop that works leads to therac-26 or PostOfficeScandal2 electric boogaloo. Neither of those applications required software superior to their competitors, just working software

The average quality of software can only trend down so far before real world problems start manifesting, even outside of businesses with a hard requirement on "software superiority"

? https://ai.cloudflare.com/

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Hard real time (or just "real time" in firmware/hardware contexts) is effectively a term of art. One that's been increasingly watered down by the rest of the industry.

Strict definitions matter when system failure == pacemaker missing a beat or train signalling system drives a freight train into the back of 400 passengers.

In this day and age of increasingly rampant supply chain attacks & dependency vulnerabilities, I'd definitely be second guessing the approach of "just write a test for it" if that test involved blowing up your attack/vuln surface

A system built on purely synchronous calls is infinitely easier to reason about and design in all aspects other than e2e latency.

I'd almost approach from the opposite direction, defaulting to sync calls till you have concrete performance reasons not to.

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(For the benefit of British transport police, the above is satire)