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		briantkelley on Feb 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The usability of advanced type systems: Rust as a ... > My point was that data can be corrupted due to logic bugs as well For sure. But in the 10+ years I worked on Office, I spent far more time per UB bug than logic bugs. 1 UB bug could take weeks to fix. I don’t recall any logic bug taking more than a few days. Developer productivity would be much improved if logic bugs were the only class of bugs.

pjmlp on Feb 22, 2023 [–]

Yet so far other than AddIns, Office has been very unwelcoming of anything but C++.

I bet if Sinofsky would have had an option those AddIns wouldn't even exist, given his opinion on .NET.

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