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It’s useful but far less important. This is easily seen by the fact that we went decades building lots of software without reproducible builds.
by wat10000 9mo ago
It’s useful but far less important. This is easily seen by the fact that we went decades building lots of software without reproducible builds.
- eru 9mo agoIf you go further back in history, we went even longer without building any software! No clue whether that's a good argument.
- wat10000 9mo agoWhat. The argument is that determinism in compilers isn't particularly important for building software because we did without it for a long time. Your argument would be... that building software isn't particularly important for building software...? The actual argument you'd be making would be something like, building software isn't particularly important for survival. Which is pretty obviously true, for the reason you state.