It's over, TSB is finished

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/04/tsb-train-wreck-massive-bank-it-failure-going-into-fifth-day-customers-locked-out-of-accounts-getting-into-other-peoples-accounts-getting-bogus-data.html

https://twitter.com/thejackthomson_/status/988564354512687104?s=20

imagine being a software developer for banking software and then fucking up this badly

sometimes it's easy to forget that people depend on your code, and if you fuck up, there are serious repercussions

this is why Haskell is the future.

code will be responsible for more and more IRL effects like spending your money, driving your car, cooking your food, or detecting cancer in your anus. in these situations it's important to have a language that can safely manage side effects.

also Haskell's type system (and coming soon, dependent types) can heavily reduce the risk of logic errors like that which caused this banking catastrophe.