There is sparsely little real “engineering” that goes on in the field of “software engineering”, industry wide, in terms of ensuring that our software is reliable and secure. Performance and development velocity seem to take the driver seat always, in a whole lot of software.

See also this talk by Bryan Cantrill, “Scale by the Bay 2018: Rust and Other Interesting Things” https://youtu.be/2wZ1pCpJUIM where he talks about software platform values, in the sense of what different programming languages and other things focus on. He also touches on the fact that while higher level layers in the stack might value security it kind of falls apart when the very microcode in our CPUs sacrifices security for performance.

This was in a period of time where Spectre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabil... and Meltdown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabi... had reared their ugly heads.