The article argues in favor of assertions in production code but acknowledges that the author's experience is from a very specific field with very specialized c

The article argues in favor of assertions in production code but acknowledges that the author's experience is from a very specific field with very specialized constraints and extensive design around recovering from aborted components. This advice is not obviously applicable to different kinds of programming with different constraints and different environments. As with so many things: one solution does not fit all problems.