On: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard

[jpalawaga]

As with software, restarting from scratch can introduce many, many bugs.

Boeing planes are super safe from millions of flighthours and the learnings and failures from before. The older aircraft annealed into a state of safety and reliability from known-ness.

"fully redesigning," introduces a lot more risk.

[2OEH8eoCRo0 → jpalawaga]

>Boeing planes are super safe from millions of flighthours and the learnings and failures from before.

Which you use to build off of.

[jpalawaga → 2OEH8eoCRo0]

in mission critical systems, build from scratches are rarely the case because any hiccups are disastrous.

It's why banks still run on mainframes despite trying (quite desperately) to get away from that.

[2OEH8eoCRo0 → jpalawaga]

Building from scratch isn't really building from scratch is my point. You build off of what you have and revisit designs. They aren't reinventing the aircraft.