I have often thought about this problem. HW designers have fixed this issue quite well.. Its called the IC and the Schematic. The IC is designed and tested and has a few or sometime many features… bu tthes efeatures are FIXED and therefore can be readily tested and perfected.. even an IC as complex as as a DSP or DualCore has been fully run through tests.. and these tests are standardized as a fully tested to catch bugs..

ICs come with spec sheets and you can look throug the specs and pick the ones that world best. And these spec sheets confomr to a basic standard.

And thenm you put them all together in a schematic.. something everyone can read and quickly understand

Why this doesn’t work for the SW world, IMHO, is that SW dudes like to mess wit h everything.. they get a DLL or open suorce module, that may well ne 100% perfect.. but they tweek it so it is “better”… A HW guy CAN”T tweek the IC, he uses it as is. with all its limitations.. he just uses it. SW guys don’t do that.. they chnage everything and thus everything is suspect.. and there has never been a good schematic for SW..

Find these solutions and SW will become as easy as HW is now… thiung back 30 yeasr and how hard it was to build a working computer.. now it is on one chip.. power it up and it works 100% perfectly.. very time.. Treat SW like HW and 20 years from now we will finally have SW that works….