Times have changed. Code now does acquire bugs just by sitting there. Assholes you depend on are changing language definitions, compiler behavior, and libraries in a massive effort concentrated on breaking your code. :)

> Assholes you depend on are changing language definitions, compiler behavior, and libraries in a massive effort concentrated on breaking your code. :)

Big Open Source is plotting against the working class developer.

Or phrased positively, Big Open Source keeping the working class developer employed

It acquires bugs, security flaws, and obsolescence from the operating system itself.

In general, when people say this sort of thing, if I dig into what exactly they're doing I discover they're importing half of npm/pypi/etc.

My code doesn't acquire bugs by sitting there in 2024 any more than it did in 2004. On most projects these days I'm using Django + Preact + HTM. Preact and HTM get loaded from static files by my root Django template. My PyPi dependencies are pinned to specific versions, and usually I have <10 (usually it's just Django and Django REST framework, sometimes it's even just Django).

Golang really is the best when it comes to backwards compatibility. I'm able to import dependencies from 14 years ago and have them work with 0 changes