>Even in the case of open-source software, with full source code and documentation available, the number of people who analyze code is miniscule. I think... we

>Even in the case of open-source software, with full source code and documentation available, the number of people who analyze code is miniscule. I think... we might just live in different worlds? I'm a sysadmin and I maintain computers, but I am surrounded by serious programmers (I mean, kernel and system verilog types, not frontend people) I have worked places where it was just me and the frontend folks, and in that case? yeah, It's kinda lonely when you need help on anything serious. But even then, with my social life being what it is now, I'd have people to ask if I was in that situation again at work. I... usually don't have any trouble getting someone qualified to look at my backtraces when I have kernel panics, and I usually don't have trouble getting those people to give me patches. that requires analyzing the code. I mean, sure, people don't spend a lot of time reading random code for no reason... but you give them a clue that something interesting is somewhere, and my experience? you can get plenty of help.