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> feature complete with no bugs I suppose for simple libraries this might be possible (e.g. left-pad) but how would you know in general that something is bug-f
by hwbehrens 4y ago
> feature complete with no bugs
I suppose for simple libraries this might be possible (e.g. left-pad) but how would you know in general that something is bug-free? `units` was introduced in 1979 and is still one of the canonical examples used in automated program repair research to show that new bugs can be found even in extremely well-studied codebases.
I think people might be:
1. Implicitly assuming that all nontrivial code has bugs, and
2. Using recent commits as a signal that means, "If I ran into a bug, there is someone who might fix it (or at least accept a fix PR) to take away my immediate pain.
- dotancohen 4y agoI've never used or heard of the left-pad library, but I'm willing to bet that I could find an RTL bug in a library with that name.
- __turbobrew__ 4y agoThat reminds me of the overflow bug in the JDK binary search that was present for quite a while.