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One developer's "old and stable" is another developer's "filled with vulnerabilities that nobody will ever find let alone bother to fix because everyone assumes
by jolux 5y ago
One developer's "old and stable" is another developer's "filled with vulnerabilities that nobody will ever find let alone bother to fix because everyone assumes it's old and stable."
IPv6 has been a draft standard since 1998. Get a better argument.
- wildfire 5y agoWhat other things we use daily are "draft standards"?
- Volundr 5y agoE-mail (RFC-821), HTTP (RFC-7540), IPv4 (RFC 791), etc. Pretty much the entire internet.
- dahfizz 5y agoA brand new project being written from scratch is way more likely to have bugs and likely to be abandoned as quickly as it started.
- jolux 5y agoNot if it’s written by a good programmer.
- NtGuy25 5y agoHad this issue with a coworker who uses a decade old version of Linux and refuses to install anything other than base packages cus it's "Stable". Well I made an in house tool, and it's not stable, since his glibc had a bug that's been fixed for a decade that made it so pthreads would break. Everytime I tried telling him it's his system before someone else found the bugfix, he would go "YOU JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO WRITE MULTITHREADED CODE! MAKE IT SINGLETHREADED AND FIND THE BUG!"