The great thing about predicting doom is that if you just keep doing it long enough you are guaranteed to be right.

Is a week of broken builds and surprise scrambling all over the world less than or greater than the uncountable commits, arguments, and shipped bugs of splitting out an ostensibly simple little block of code to 50,000 projects and 39,273 developers who couldn't get it right the first few passes? Legitimately curious but it's rhetorical since there is no way to measure it. I wish there were. The cold water of individual prerogative v corporate assumption in open source was worth something in the whole show, at least to me.

Turning things we like into virtue and things we dislike into sin should be a bit of a red flag on an opinion piece.

In reply to Re: "When code reuse turns ugly" by Your Mother
in thread "When code reuse turns ugly" by BrowserUk

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