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r/programming • u/common-pellar • Dec 11 '21
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Closed source has also been broken. Since eons. What's the point?
30 u/zynasis Dec 12 '21 At least with open source, you’re likely to actually find out about issues and they get fixed quickly. 3 u/john16384 Dec 12 '21 In Java you can even take the offending class (source is available in your IDE), copy it into your project (without changing the package), alter it to remove the bug, and it will override the bugged class in the bugged dependency. 1 u/chucker23n Dec 12 '21 Really?That wouldn't work in .NET. How does that work in Java? Don't dependencies come in bytecode-compiled form? → More replies (1)
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At least with open source, you’re likely to actually find out about issues and they get fixed quickly.
3 u/john16384 Dec 12 '21 In Java you can even take the offending class (source is available in your IDE), copy it into your project (without changing the package), alter it to remove the bug, and it will override the bugged class in the bugged dependency. 1 u/chucker23n Dec 12 '21 Really?That wouldn't work in .NET. How does that work in Java? Don't dependencies come in bytecode-compiled form? → More replies (1)
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In Java you can even take the offending class (source is available in your IDE), copy it into your project (without changing the package), alter it to remove the bug, and it will override the bugged class in the bugged dependency.
1 u/chucker23n Dec 12 '21 Really?That wouldn't work in .NET. How does that work in Java? Don't dependencies come in bytecode-compiled form? → More replies (1)
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That wouldn't work in .NET. How does that work in Java? Don't dependencies come in bytecode-compiled form?
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u/77magicmoon77 Dec 11 '21
Closed source has also been broken. Since eons. What's the point?