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Re:Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction by ted_dunning on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:04PM (#48621634)
I, on the other hand, have had to burn through countless cycles of security alerts because I used a library for JSON parsing that had all kinds of other features that I didn't need or want.

The security bugs were all in features I never wanted.

A bit of simple duplication would have been golden.

Re:Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction by tcfhgj on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @09:31PM (#48654045)
Your duplication of the library would have the same bugs, you just wouldn't get alerts