Fixing these kinds of bugs also improve developer productivity in my experience.
Code that can trigger crashes like this often has problems with ownership and/or concurrent access. At least I often get stuck on such code when doing modifications, asking myself how on earth they guard against null ptr derefs etc. In many cases that sneaking suspicion is founded and there really are bugs lurking in the code I'm supposed to extend in some way.
Code that can trigger crashes like this often has problems with ownership and/or concurrent access. At least I often get stuck on such code when doing modifications, asking myself how on earth they guard against null ptr derefs etc. In many cases that sneaking suspicion is founded and there really are bugs lurking in the code I'm supposed to extend in some way.