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by pittmajp 1256 days ago
How many bugs should a software project have? You can’t justify a rewrite of working code because there might be bugs.
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Memory bugs! I mean mean memory bugs.

Every project should have exactly zero (0) memory bugs. That's nigh impossible to achieve with large codebases written in C/C++ or some other unsafe language.

Chromium and FireFox are still busily fixing memory bugs twenty years after the code was written. It's a God-awful mess!