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A comment on iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug. Parent comment

Re:iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug by lolc on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:21AM (#18023360)
If you need the shim anyway to fix it for your users it doesn't particularly matter to you at what point Apple fixes this. The fix will take months to percolate in the best case anyway. It seems you also need an Applie-ID to even report a defect.

So to me the unwillingness to help Apple with this is not a strange response. Especially considering Apple made Safari closed-source.

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Re:iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug by jsmeaton on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:23AM (#18023374)
I find the response weird because the commenter had an unwillingness to do free work for a company yet publishes a package that fixes their mistake.
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Re:iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug by lolc on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:35AM (#18023434)
Writing a bug report is work. Writing the shim is work.

The bug report doesn't fix the problem right away. The shim fixes the problem right away.

Reporting the bug will cause a fix for everybody eventually. Adding the shim will fix it for me.

If we want to be nice to Apple - and get rid of the shim eventually - sure, we write a bug report. But if we can fix it before reporting, that gets priority.

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