[letitbeirie]

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

[MisterTea]

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.

[LeifCarrotson]

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

[eru]

What's OT?

[letitbeirie]

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...

[eru]

Thanks a lot!