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"Load bearing bugs"

• drzaiusx11 5mo ago
  It really is incredible how frequently these occur in everyday codebases of sufficient size.
  • svieira 5mo ago
    We actually have a constant in our codebase to mark such bugs. You found one? Put it inside an: if (PREFER_EXISTING_BUGS_TO_NEW_ONES) { theOldBehavior(); } else { theNewBehavior(); } Then, if we ever go to do a v2 of the thing, we can review these existing "load bearing bugs" and see if they make sense to change.
    • drzaiusx11 5mo ago
      We do this via feature flags as well whenever "fixing" a non-trivial bug