This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[tide]

On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 20:48:27 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/1/2018 5:25 AM, tide wrote:
>> and that all bugs can be solved with asserts
>
> I never said that, not even close.

Are you in large implying it.

> But I will maintain that DVD players still hanging on a 
> scratched DVD after 20 years of development means there's some 
> cowboy engineering going on, and an obvious lack of concern 
> about that from the manufacturer.

Yes why wouldn't a company want to fix a "feature" where by, if 
you have a scratch on a DVD you have to go buy another one in 
order to play it. It's obviously not that big of a deal breaker, 
even for you, considering you are still buying them 20 years on.