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the context menu.. Microsoft, if you're reading this.... why? It's objectively worse.

Mostly boring proprietary business applications.

If I understand correctly, it just wraps an existing Linux driver in a container. You can hardly call that writing a driver.

Read up on XPath axes:)

any serious enterprise software that attempts to fit every company's workflow (rather than forcing the company to follow theirs)

At what point is it easier and faster to just code it yourself? I don't trust myself to write better specs than code.

I've learnt that if a test only fails sometimes, it can take a long time for somebody to actually investigate the cause,in the meantime it's written off as just another flaky test. If there really is a bug, it will probably surface sooner in production than it gets fixed.

I dislike the intent too. A website should simply not be able to see which apps I've got installed. Imagine Facebook doing stuff like this in order to know what ads they should serve.

I think uploading a file, editing it and downloading it back is such an uncommon operation that it makes no sense to apply any smart heuristics.

You, as a maintainer, are free to ignore any such expectations and do what you want. There are no obligations. You only risk disappointing people (or corporations), and losing Github stars. If that leads to unmaintained libraries, that probably means the open-source model doesn't work for this project. And that's fine.

Is the consensus that software will be both developed and tested by machines? Will there still be a human in the loop? I hope at least some testing or approval will still be done by people, otherwise the software we use everyday will become even worse than it is now. Unless we envision that machines will also be the only end users of the software. At that point there hopefully will be an interface that allows for immediate reporting and fixing of defects.

Intelligence has many dimensions.

The parent comment was talking about a deployed application, and making sure users can't modify the source code.

In that case, your image hopefully was built using source code from a VCS and no such changes will have been applied. This is not so different from building an app by pulling the latest version of the code from Git.

And if you did manage to commit changes that completely mess up your environment, you throw that image away, take a vanilla one and load your source code into it. Again, not so different from using Git.

Smalltalk being so malleable also makes it possible to completely disable source code inspection/execution.

Perhaps your passport was checked on departure instead of on arrival? At least that's how it worked when taking the Eurostar train.