Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?

Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by Gigachad on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:20PM (#29898984)

I wonder if people are forgetting that not long ago, it was acceptable and normal that your word processor could have a bug in it which would crash the entire OS. Or how almost everything was insecure by default.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by oblio on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:15PM (#29899808)

Or your email client would open and execute every file attached and it would do so with root permissions.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by stonogo on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:11PM (#29900398)

Nobody found that acceptable except computer programmers.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by Gigachad on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:34PM (#29900624)

Well it didn’t really matter what users thought because that’s how it was. Modern programming and software is massively improved and the failure modes are much safer.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by chongli on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:48AM (#29905095)

I remember those days. It was never acceptable. We just didn’t have any other choice.

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