You could argue that we have security licenses (eg SOC 2), however I don't think it actually succeeds in making software safe. I think software is hard because unlike a bridge, which is built with limited scope and the risk is known when it's designed, software grows to become load bearing without us really realizing it. Eg CrowdStrike, I never would have assumed that an outage could affect so much of the world.
Dev tools in the browser are a direct editor, sure you can't drag things around with the mouse, but you can edit values live and see them change. Big difference from recompiling to see changes.
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