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On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

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  1. hasperdi · · focus · HN ↗

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    1. xenophonf · · focus · HN ↗
      It's hardly a rant. Not once did either author question the birthright of the Neovim developers in Russian.

      I think more software engineers should worry about this stuff. If I had to teach a bunch of juniors in a computer science or software engineering degree program, I'd make them read this as a case study alongside good ol' Therac-25. The software we create is _useful_. How it affects other people _matters_. We ought to care about that no matter what the legal disclaimers say.

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