This person has never worked in IT. A lot of specialists, especially advanced ones, will never do their own IT work - they focus on what they know, and damn the rest. Folks like lawyers do not have time to do their own stuff, especially when they bill 450 an hour. IT isn't going anywhere.

Most flight software is written in C or C++, because it has to be bare metal fast and utterly predictable. The code is written in a CMMI Level 4 or better environment, which guarantees that every line of code is scrutinized and tested as much as possible, from every angle. That code does exactly what it is supposed to. In that environment, you could be writing in brainfuck and be guaranteed that the plain would arrive safely. That being said, never, ever use JAVA in anything realtime - a full stop garbage collection at the wrong time will ruin your afternoon.

Genetic counselling will address that, it's recessive, so as long as they breed with non-carriers it should be ok. Humanity is in kind of a post-natural selection phase at the moment, not to say that it will last. It is a net positive to keep the gene pool as diverse as possible while we are, because we don't know what's coming for us.

Wouldn't that be Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics?

Like any other performer, they become our bitches when they enter the limelight. You don't want to deal with fans, don't generate a fan-base.

Tools help, and code generators make things go faster, but there is only one code tool that can handle everything properly: Greymatter, MK 1