On 7/25/24 14:13, Rich Pieri wrote:
First, the aphorism that, "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow," is demonstrably wrong.
It might actually *be* true, were the precondition true, if there actually *were* there a lot of eyes. But there aren't.
It turns out reading source code is not a major recreation on the internet, it has hard work. Even when programmers are paid to review code as part of their jobs, reviews tend to be whether the favored "design patterns" and "best practices" are being followed. And of course, whether it is nicely formatted, and only a small code change.
Canonical kxcd cartoon 2347 "Dependency": https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png
Not only is "some random person in Nebraska" the only one maintaining that little block that holds up "all modern digital infrastructure", s/he is the only person looking at that code at all. Since 2003…
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