> It doesn’t matter that the language you use is memory-safe, if you didn’t design for correctness or have no process that will eventually lead you to fixing all bugs.
After many years in the business I have come to a more pragmatic view. There is no meaningful way of distinguishing features from bugs. It doesn't matter that work tracking software usually does.
Once you realize that the lack of a feature is the same as the presence of a bug then "fixing all bugs" also means "adding all the features", then you also accept that you will never be done.
If you have a bug to fix to weigh against a feature to add, which do you pick? The only correct answer is "The one that provides most value". And again we see that it's very possible - even likely - that fixing the last bug will _never_ be as important as adding more features.
I know this is probably not what the author meant. First of all "having a process" doesn't mean completing the process. Second of all, you can categorize bugs as being of a specific kind (The linked article under [fixing all bugs] actually only talks about failing asserts).
After many years in the business I have come to a more pragmatic view. There is no meaningful way of distinguishing features from bugs. It doesn't matter that work tracking software usually does.
Once you realize that the lack of a feature is the same as the presence of a bug then "fixing all bugs" also means "adding all the features", then you also accept that you will never be done.
If you have a bug to fix to weigh against a feature to add, which do you pick? The only correct answer is "The one that provides most value". And again we see that it's very possible - even likely - that fixing the last bug will _never_ be as important as adding more features.
I know this is probably not what the author meant. First of all "having a process" doesn't mean completing the process. Second of all, you can categorize bugs as being of a specific kind (The linked article under [fixing all bugs] actually only talks about failing asserts).