Why would it be beneficial for society to filter out people who make poor business decisions? Many of the greatest generals, politicians, scientists, and artists in history were terrible at business and fell for scams many times.
Seems neat, but it looks like the major thing is the syntax. Of course c++ syntax is insane and should be updated, but i cant shake the feeling that c++ developers secretly love it. Scanning c++ code for a seasoned c++ developer is like the bushmen of the kalahari scanning the african savanna.
According to who? I checked the edac module for a year on my work machine, and it never detected a single error. I know I'm just one anecdote, but I doubt I'm that lucky.
ECC support is an actual +10-20% cost in materials for the motherboard and DIMM manufacturers. Also, ECC errors are basically non-existent on desktop/laptop workloads. ECC is worth the extra cost in servers, but for desktops and laptops, the market got it right.