Sorry I have no experience with Sony cameras.
In any case as you are asking different questions than the one in the title maybe you should consider to ask these questions in a different post.
About crashes, you also get crashes with Stellarmate once in a while. I do not know about driver C++ programming and whether crashes are difficult to avoid/recover even using a defensive style or what. But, in my experience, crashes somehow diminish with time, as you get familiar with the application.

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