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Re:We All Dodged a Bullet by Groxx on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:09PM (#45187145)
when I was doing C# pre-nuget we had an utterly absurd amount of libraries that nobody had checked and nobody ever upgraded. so... yeah I think it applies there too, at least from my experience.

I do agree that C is an especially-bad case for additional reasons though, yeah.

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Re:We All Dodged a Bullet by bunderbunder on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:20PM (#45188306)
Gotcha. When I was, we actively curated our dependencies and maintaining them was a regularly scheduled task that one team member in particular was in charge of making sure got done.
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Re:We All Dodged a Bullet by Groxx on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @09:10PM (#45191823)
most teams I've been around have zero or one person who handles that (because they're passionate) (this is usually me) - tbh I think that's probably the majority case.

exceptions totally exist, I've seen them too. I just don't think they're enough to move the median away from "total chaotic garbage" regardless of the system

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Re:We All Dodged a Bullet by bunderbunder on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:25PM (#45202436)
This is why I secretly hate the term software engineer. "Software tinker" would be more appropriate.
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Re:We All Dodged a Bullet by Groxx on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @09:28PM (#45206579)
ha, I like that one - it evokes the right mental image.
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