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by justthistime_ 3890 days ago
Same bugs on different platforms are extremely hard to find.

Different bugs on different platforms are like an early Christmas present:

You don't even need to write tests which include your "expectations" of the result anymore.

Just call the code with randomized inputs for both platforms, and if there is a difference, you found a bug.

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That's a good point. As a (shim) library developer I think I might agree -- because it would perhaps be easier to find bugs in my library -- as an application developer I wouldn't because I would have to find different workarounds for different bugs.