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That explains a lot! Never worked with certified code, but I see how it makes sense.

Do the vendor compilers have a very focused feature set as a result? To reduce both test surface area and chance of expensive mistakes?

The point I was making was that something doesn’t need to be used often for it to be important and for you to want it to be reliable.

Also, the horn is a signal. It allows you to evade and alert other users that something needs their attention. Maybe they need to avoid you while you avoid something else.

If the hardware is exotic I guess you’d have no choice. But for security critical don’t you run the risk of relying on obscurity rather than security due to the niche-ness of your stack?

What does a vendor compiler do or do better than a compatible generic one?

Thanks for your answer! What makes it so that AutoCAD is not high end? Like what features does it lack or what workflows does it not support?

Suppose something like CATIA was available on Mac and offered lets say a performance benefit. Would you consider Mac? Or would you for example still need a whole other set of tools to be available as well for it to be even possible?

A non-technical manager who can somehow do his tech job unburdened by having to understand technology to me sounds just like a non-administrative programmer who can somehow do his tech job unburdened by any administrative tasks such as issue tracking or planning.

How does that even work? How can one be 'non-technical' when they are managing people who produce technical output? Is it not key to managing this situation that one understands what is being done to at least some degree? And if one understands to some degree then one is not 'non-technical' I would say. If understanding is lacking; it can be learned.

It's not like it's magic!

8K output support doesn't really cost much so I wouldn't worry about it. It doesn't matter to most of the GPU internals. Games will internally run at whatever resolution they think results in the best quality/responsiveness/fluidity/development-cost trade-off, supporting 8K doesn't change anything there.

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I'm not German, but I'd say it's close to: bells and whistles.

Or more directly: sparkles and flashing lights.

Seems like this Wikipedia entry is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

This was entertaining: ": ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN."

Seems to fit what our author was going for too.