On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 12:11:36 UTC, rjframe wrote:
At the time of writing:
Ansible has 3391 open bugs[1] (and ~master is often used in
production).
Python has more than 6000, 2000+ with patches[2].
GCC (C and C++ components only) has 3119[3].
Bugs are part of software. That's just life. It doesn't mean
the software is unreliable/unusable, just that it can be better.
Whether D is usable, reliable or whatever was not my argument.
My argument is more broader, and is about how an opensource
project, like D for example, looks out for the interests of its
users. i.e quality assurance.
1000's of bugs suggest to me, a lack of QA.
A lack of QA suggests to me, a lack of concern for the interests
of users.
There are numerous research papers in this area, some of which I
am in the process of reading, to gain a better understanding of
QA in open source projects - and apparently it's a real issue of
concern to those researching this topic.
Anyway, as I go through these research papers, I suspect that it
is unlikely they will conclude that bugs are just a part of
software, and that's just life.. and least.. I hope not.
