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Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

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278 points jwilk | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bryanlarsen ◴[25 Jun 25 22:35 UTC] No.44382391[source]▶
> The point is that libxml2 never had the quality to be used in mainstream browsers or operating systems to begin with

I think that's seriously over-estimating the quality of software in mainstream browsers and operating systems. Certainly some parts of mainstream OS's and browsers are very well written. Other parts, though...

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karel-3d ◴[26 Jun 25 06:01 UTC] No.44384586[source]▶
I have only experience with Chrome codebase and while it's C++ (which I don't personally like) it's pretty solid and most of the weird hairy stuff were the external linked libraries. But I didn't poke around THAT much.
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1. prmoustache ◴[26 Jun 25 11:36 UTC] No.44386379[source]▶
Using badly written external linked library is bad software engineering / quality too as the responsibility lies into who are linking it.