There a people who claim that "once it compiles, it works". I've seen this quite a few times here on HN. Just a random example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45046182

That’s a far more nuanced comment than you’re portraying it as, especially as it’s appearing for exactly this scenario: the new dd is working as designed, it’s not segfaulting or corrupting data, but its design isn’t identical to the GNU version and that logic error is the kind of thing Rust can’t prevent short of AGI.

> "once it compiles, it works"

That is not a quote from that post. I am very much not pedantic about only using quotation marks for quotes as long as it reasonably accurately gets the gist right, but in this case it very much doesn't.

You are leaving out the qualified language of "generally", which completely changes what was said. And worse, the post explicitly acknowledges that it doesn't solve all bugs in the next sentence.

And even if you can dig deep and find someone using unqualified language somewhere, I'm willing to bet a lot of money that this is an oversight and when pressed they will immediately admit so (on account of this being an internet forum and not a scientific paper, and people are careless sometimes). "I like coffee" rarely means "I always like coffee, all the time, without exception".