The quotes were ambiguous. I didn't mean that they were wrong in saying that "it's hard" but simply that it's not a reason to give up on beautiful, resilient, and performant code. And that is especially true when you are writing low level functions that work on strings and such. I'm not talking about complex systems that "just need to work" because you're in a corporate environment (those are usually closed source spaghetti heaps of trashable code that nobody cares about. They're the opposite of open source contributions to Linux...).

This is why I got fed up with software development. It's shit. Everything is shit. No one write fail-safe code because "it's hard".

People should be ashamed of publicly pushing such ugly code ffs.