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What happened to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle#Criticism Postel's Law do
by kazinator 3y ago
What happened to it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle#Criticism
Postel's Law doesn't pass a software engineering smell test.
The idea that software should guess and repair bad inputs is deeply flawed. It is a security threat and a source of enshittification.
- chuckadams 3y ago> enshittification I am so over this word.