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> As a user you are asking for a measurably worse experience. Worse than what? A program with a million features is going to have a hundred known bugs at any p
by alkonaut 4y ago
> As a user you are asking for a measurably worse experience.
Worse than what? A program with a million features is going to have a hundred known bugs at any point. Getting ten fixed every week is better than getting 100 fixed 3 months from now.
That's the thing though: as a user (not as a developer, I assure you) I want the million features, and accept the thousand bugs in order to get them. But that also means I want the weekly patches. A desktop app with 1000 features and 1 bug is good quality. As is a desktop app with a million features and the same number of bugs-to-features. You might argue that one should count bugs in the absolute, but that's just moving goalposts. With that bar there simply are no complex high-quality apps! Any useful definition of complex high quality app must be relative.
> I suspect you are a developer, not just a user
Indeed (this is HN after all).
- kasabali 4y ago> A program with a million features is going to have a hundred known bugs at any point. Getting ten fixed every week is better than getting 100 fixed 3 months from now Ideally. In real world though it's more like fix 10, introduce 5 more. So modern software is always in constant beta. I'd rather have them release every 3 months with proper QA process in place so it'd be fix 100, introduce 20 new or something.