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bybackslashdot ( 95548 ) writes:
They are going to do this in an automated way, meaning the bugs will be copied too as "features".
bybjoast ( 1310293 ) writes:
Let's hope so. In old code bases you can't always just fix every bug because many bugs have through use and abuse evolved to be considered part of the contract. An AI assisted rewrite that did not migrate known bugs would likely be a grand failure.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Anyone that writes code that relies on undocumented or incorrect behavior of the underlying OS deserves to lose their job.
byAvitarX ( 172628 ) writes:
It's a very old codebase.
They probably are retired.
But MS was all about using undocumented shot for the purpose of stating ahead of their competition that was stuck with documented features.
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byArmoredDragon ( 3450605 ) writes:
They probably are retired.
This is actually one argument Google made for deprecating C++ in favor of Rust. C++ tends to be that if somebody other than the original maintainer makes changes, they can really break shit in totally unexpected ways without anybody realizing it. A major contributor to that is OOP inheritance, which isn't a thing in Rust, and the fact that C++ lacks exhaustive pattern matching (C++ doesn't have pattern matching at all.)
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