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by hulitu 1146 days ago
> Remember that time bumblebee accidentally deleted everyone's /usr? Or that time steam deleted everyone's homedir? Both because of the easiest to avoid bash footguns - spaces and empty variables.

https://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt

Your exanples were bugs which were not caught during development because "testing is hard and expensive" and "if it compiles, ship it".

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And yet Rust gains traction over C. "Best practice" can't fix a dangerous tool.