In the industries where I worked as a C++ coder, it was quite common to leave debugging symbols in the binaries so that customers could have better stack traces

In the industries where I worked as a C++ coder, it was quite common to leave debugging symbols in the binaries so that customers could have better stack traces for their error diagnostics. On OS X, it is still quite common to ship production apps in a way that allows you to "symbolicate" stack dumps after the fact. What I'm trying to say: In most production uses, the line between dev and release dependencies is so blurred that it almost doesn't exist.