• marcos@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Yet the world is full of code that was replaced with less work than it would take to fix a single bug on the broken original.

    It’s almost like if universal rules for software engineering doesn’t exist… but no, that’s crazy.

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      10 months ago

      Yet the world is full of code that was replaced with less work than it would take to fix a single bug on the broken original.

      Can you point out a concrete example? Because you’re commenting on a discussion on an essay that documents several notorious examples that demonstrate the opposite point.

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        10 months ago

        I’m not extremely familiar with it, but I think X11 qualifies. I think it was determined that HDR support would be basically impossible to implement.