RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Lobste.rs@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 3 months agoNobody knows how the whole system workssurfingcomplexity.blogexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkNobody knows how the whole system workssurfingcomplexity.blogRSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Lobste.rs@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square3linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
minus-squarejimmy90@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months agoabstracting away complexity from the user is standard practice. if there are bugs then they manifest and get reported and fixed you could say security bugs in C/C++ are examples of systems coming tumbling down but not really as the happy path still works 100% you are using entire stacks of software right now, probably all of which have bugs, but it’s working quite well isn’t it? engineering keeps evolving and languages like rust pop up to help us humans to make perfect machines
abstracting away complexity from the user is standard practice. if there are bugs then they manifest and get reported and fixed
you could say security bugs in C/C++ are examples of systems coming tumbling down but not really as the happy path still works 100%
you are using entire stacks of software right now, probably all of which have bugs, but it’s working quite well isn’t it?
engineering keeps evolving and languages like rust pop up to help us humans to make perfect machines