Re:Sshole
by shakow on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:01PM
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I don't really care about the form of the argument when the concrete results are that (i) “no unwrap in prod” is trivial to ensure through the toolchain, (ii) even though, its consequences are “damn it crashed” instead of “welp I guess this guy is root now”.
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> And that analogous situation can happen in the safer language where crypt returns an Optional(String) which some bad programs assume is always present.
Once again, no, because these unknown programs would just crash on the `.unwrap()`; not get in a silently corrupted state. Same causes, different effects.