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[โ€“] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Billions of programs worked perfectly fine today.

Cynicism is easy, but not helpful.

[โ€“] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, popular programs behave correctly most of the time.

But "perfectly fine for the last two decades" would imply a far lower rate of CVEs and general reliability than we actually have in modern software.