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These alerts are suspiciously useless. When I see something like that, I immediately try to think “who would they not be useless for?”. Obviously useless for en
by fwlr 3y ago
These alerts are suspiciously useless. When I see something like that, I immediately try to think “who would they not be useless for?”. Obviously useless for end-users, similarly useless for the developers of the named app. But I can think of someone it wouldn’t be useless for: the MacOS developers working on a new method for detecting deprecations.
I imagine there’s a MacOS developer somewhere with a test harness on their local machine, it has a bunch of app stubs with names like “ThisAppShouldAlert” and “ThisAppShouldNotAlert”, and their new deprecation-detection method that they’ve been working on starts with “if DEBUG == 1”. (Maybe this developer is right now in a meeting with management, getting a grilling for using the DEBUG flag instead of the INTERNAL_DEBUG flag.)