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Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by shmageggy on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:06PM (#5217652)
This is indicative of a systemic problem with end-user software in general, not just browsers. In my experience in the audio world, the DAW-maker's rush makers to crank out features to the neglect of the functionality of their product has been simply horrific. I've used 4 of the top programs (ProTools, Sonar, Cubase, Logic) in paid sessions, and new releases of each one always leave old bugs unfixed as well as introduce new bugs, some of which are crippling. Each one of these programs cost over $500 (at the time they were used, Logic is less now, I believe but also the buggiest and most unstable.) The author is right that fixing bugs doesn't get headlines, but the neglect exhibited by many in the software industry is downright shameful.
Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by egypturnash on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:28PM (#5217727)
I was really shocked when one of the main features of the latest version of Adobe Illustrator was "we went in and rewrote a bunch of old messy core programming and made it lots faster under heavy loads".

Of course, they also rebuilt the whole UI from scratch and introduced some new bugs in that...

Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by coldtea on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:22PM (#5217702)
>at the time they were used, Logic is less now, I believe but also the buggiest and most unstable.

Citation needed. Cubase has horrible bugs. And Logic 9 for example HAD 9 service releases, with bugfixes and new features IIRC.

Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by tekromancr on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:25PM (#5217715)
Unless you're Apple.