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Devs who haven't worked in industrial controls won't believe it, but the overwhelming majority of critical OT software still doesn't.

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Because the lunatics who wrote the software turned it into a stupid contraption where the source files are mummified in xml and entombed in a zip file or some other proprietary binary container. PLC coding standards should be taken out back one by one and shot twice in the head.

As a Rockwell user, I can't agree more. But check out Copia Automation if you want to see an improvement to this problem.

What's OT?

Operational Technology.

It's basically IT but for industrial operations instead of commercial.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/internet-of-things/w...

Thanks a lot!

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