Comment by scott_w
5 hours ago
Your argument is, frankly, idiotic. If a version of Windows, or any deployed software, has a performance regression, do you consider it “not a live product” because you didn’t personally install it yet?
I really don’t have words. When people bemoan the state of software engineering, your comment here is exactly what they’re talking about.
Snarky comment aside, Python is definitely *not* a "live system". If you had worked with such system before you'd know the world of difference between a version release of "stable" software versus a live platform that cannot fail.
> If you had worked with such system before
You mean software that has to be deployed locally? Like the example I gave?
> you'd know the world of difference
It's actually worse. The longer you take to get a fixed version out there, the more people will install the buggy version. As distribution is more difficult than just merging a Github PR, that buggy version will live longer on live systems. And before you say "but it's on the developer/DevOps/sysadmin to test," I point you to the countless CVEs where this didn't happen.
Knowing this is the situation, it's unconscionable to leave a faulty build on live for longer than necessary, when you can rollback the change with limited risk.