Comment by grebc
I don’t know how you take the article OP wrote/posted and conflate it with security breaches.
Long lived shipping code is typically not aesthetically pleasing.
I don’t know how you take the article OP wrote/posted and conflate it with security breaches.
Long lived shipping code is typically not aesthetically pleasing.
Some of these warts are problems with security, or data integrity, or resource usage, etc.
It's a difference of opinion more than it is a conflation with something else.
My _personal_ preference is that software does the "correct" thing by default even if it breaks my build or my tests or even running software; I would rather it break visibly than work nefariously.