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> When was the last time you saw a major consumer application (the TikTok or Instagram client, or your web browser, or VSCode) crash hard and fail on you? Yes
by falcolas 4y ago
> When was the last time you saw a major consumer application (the TikTok or Instagram client, or your web browser, or VSCode) crash hard and fail on you?
Yesterday. The kindle app. It has a habit of soft locking on a book's cover. TikTok's failure mode tends to be more of a "refuses to play a video" kind. Especially if you're scrolling through videos and one does not exist. It doesn't like that. Instagram soft reboots pretty often (you can tell because you're back to the home feed, as opposed to where you left off), especially after being suspended.
I have to reboot my Mac weekly, both for updates and to keep it from misbehaving oddly.
It's one thing our development culture actually fosters these days - let it fail and restart in a known state; as opposed to doing what you can to keep the software alive through non-fatal errors.