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Just another reason I don't mess with unix utils outside of the most trivial scripts one can imagine. I really don't care if the software I use is "high qualit

Just another reason I don't mess with unix utils outside of the most trivial scripts one can imagine. I really don't care if the software I use is "high quality" or not, anywhere near as much as how many edge cases they've covered. If your app is small and has very few dependencies, as a heuristic I generally expect it to somehow be trouble one way or another. The only time I've had major trouble with VS Code is when I installed a buggy extension that helps add licenses to things, without noticing that it modifies every file in the entire workspace, even if they have a license already, and sometimes gets the syntax wrong. It wasn't a bit popular extension, so I probably should have known better.

gumby 5y ago
> If your app is small and has very few dependencies, as a heuristic I generally expect it to somehow be trouble one way or another. Wow, that’s extraordinary! I have precisely the opposite view, especially the “few dependencies.” The more dependencies the higher the probability of failure in my experience.
- eternityforest 5y ago
  Oh you're probably totally right. The smaller apps are less likely in and of themselves to fail. The problems I expect to see are not really the app itself failing, its the inability to deal with some other failure, or some changed requirements that make some ugliness, or maybe it doesn't have hardware acceleration and the performance is a little worse. Maybe it doesn't detect malformed packets right. Maybe there's a UI issue that makes it easy to delete files, as in all the rm and dd problems. Maybe it only supports bitmap and wav files and now your app needs 5x the storage when you start adding media. Very small things rarely outright fail. It's the rest of the whole system from users to hardware that does wrong by those very small things, and in their perfect bug free innocent perfection they're all "OK I guess the user knows what he's doing, one deleted home folder, coming right up!"

gumby 5y ago

> If your app is small and has very few dependencies, as a heuristic I generally expect it to somehow be trouble one way or another. Wow, that’s extraordinary! I have precisely the opposite view, especially the “few dependencies.” The more dependencies the higher the probability of failure in my experience.

eternityforest 5y ago
Oh you're probably totally right. The smaller apps are less likely in and of themselves to fail. The problems I expect to see are not really the app itself failing, its the inability to deal with some other failure, or some changed requirements that make some ugliness, or maybe it doesn't have hardware acceleration and the performance is a little worse. Maybe it doesn't detect malformed packets right. Maybe there's a UI issue that makes it easy to delete files, as in all the rm and dd problems. Maybe it only supports bitmap and wav files and now your app needs 5x the storage when you start adding media. Very small things rarely outright fail. It's the rest of the whole system from users to hardware that does wrong by those very small things, and in their perfect bug free innocent perfection they're all "OK I guess the user knows what he's doing, one deleted home folder, coming right up!"