Is there actually evidence for this? The 30 year arc of the industry to date that I am familiar with so far shows little sign of engineering standards in software codifying around anything.
If we are in the infancy stage in 2020, we are one very large infant. More likely to me is that in the future, software will change so much again that what we do today is unrecognisable; not because of codification but because of the inevitable tech churn between now and then.
The closest things we get to standards are automated vulnerability checkers. I'm currently dealing with one of these vulnerability scanners which claims our code base has some XSS vulnerabilities, which I know is wrong because the app isn't a web app. SMH
Regulations are written in blood. Eventually enough people will die from bad software that it will be regulated like engineering. The more we depend on computers the more likely this is to happen.
Is there actually evidence for this? The 30 year arc of the industry to date that I am familiar with so far shows little sign of engineering standards in software codifying around anything.
If we are in the infancy stage in 2020, we are one very large infant. More likely to me is that in the future, software will change so much again that what we do today is unrecognisable; not because of codification but because of the inevitable tech churn between now and then.