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I'm fine with that premise: it's strange. But if you think about the implications of this strangeness, it can be equally interpreted as "Linus is playing a dan

by slver 5y ago

I'm fine with that premise: it's strange. But if you think about the implications of this strangeness, it can be equally interpreted as "Linus is playing a dangerous game" or "maybe we've kind of exaggerated the importance of unit tests, seeing Linux is doing fine". Linux doesn't seem to stand out as exceptionally buggy. It has bugs, but then so does every project that's unit tested.

Retric 5y ago
Alternatively, unit tests are simply a poor fit when context is so critical for Linux kernel bugs. In much the way unit tests are really hard to write for concurrency issues. In theory they should still be useful, but in practice perhaps not.
- slver 5y ago
  Unit tests are honestly a poor fit for many problems. Unfortunately it takes Linus levels of determination to resist and carve out an exception status for your project.
- sangnoir 5y ago
  Unit tests also have to be maintained - which compounds the cost