There's no type checking, no syntax highlighting, just my predecessor's loose reading of the National Electrical Code and my heart as the debugger. It's been two centuries since the first electric light, and I've spent every minute of that terrified. This is why I'm a software guy.
But what's really terrifying is having to then walk back to the breaker box and flip the breaker back on. I can never tell if it's going to "just work" or blow up the neighborhood.
I've worked with electricity more than the average person already, between growing up in a place and time that had frequent grid outages, having to replace household fuses instead before breakers were common, engineering classes in school, and working in solar. But I'm still never comfortable with electricity. I've been shocked by improper wiring in a swimming pool locker room, fried motherboards from accidentally shorting them to the case, melted laptops from missing drivers, etc.
In my mind, every wire is a fuze to an atomic weapon aimed at me personally, just waiting for the right moment to strike. Some people are afraid of heights... or public speaking... me, I'm terrified of circuits. They're like a bunch of snakes imbued with the power of lightning, where one bite could melt you from the inside out. Ugh. I'll stick to Javascript, thank you very much.
having that said i dont see how this is feasible yet on a widespread public scale given how computational intensive this is.
That’s why I am doing it.