They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.

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  • Unsung is my blog about software craft and quality.
  • A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener.
  • Persistent undo is one of my favourite features of vim.
  • Vim has kept this working across major version upgrades over a period of about 20 years.
  • Breaking persistent undo is something I could forgive as a bug, but the attitude that just because something is a persistent file that contains data that you might want is no reason for their program not to delete it meant they had no concept of a duty of care to their users.
A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener I have used vim since around 2000.

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