Re:A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
by robin-whg on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:12AM
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But you can't have the cake and eat it too. We can't expect every company to maintain native apps for every platform and a website on top of that; not relying on 3rd party packages and instead to write everything themselves. Maintaining all that, they're bound to f-up at some point and expose vulnerabilities.
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Yep, for some reason only poor indie gaming companies do that.
It's unrealistic to expect companies the size of Microsoft to take a break from putting spyware in your operating system and, for example, revert the piece of shit Skype has become back into a native app.
> Maintaining all that, they're bound to f-up at some point and expose vulnerabilities.
Who maintains the 1600 dependencies of a project? Pretty sure some of those expose vulnerabilities. Not counting those that are downright malware.