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> 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".




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




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