Oh cool, another Chrome 0-day abusing integer overflow.

Neat.

Great.

Awesome.

Meanwhile, we'll be writing about how we need to have "high impact libraries that help lots of users" and then give examples like CLI Parsing/JSON Parsing before we sit down and go "we should have some standard library types / functions for integers...?".

v.v.v.v. cool prioritization we do here.

We keep calling ourselves software engineers, but engineers elsewhere advance their industry by analyzing failures and building up tools to stop those and make them standard industry practice!

But we'll just have the same 6 problems, on a regular spin cycle, for like 40 years.

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@thephd what stops you software engineers from reflective practice and finding ways around these problems? Bertrand Meyer did it

@mapto @thephd few in the industry have formal (university) training.

Even those of us with formal training come from universities with little engineering tradition, being computer science centers.

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