It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
That half-finished thing you threw on PyPI and forgot about? The world is genuinely slightly better for it existing.
As some of you may know, I decided that the logical step after writing Hypothesis was to join Antithesis , and once here I pitched them on the idea that we should create an open source property-based testing library 1 called Hegel .
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That half-finished thing you threw on PyPI and forgot about? The world is genuinely slightly better for it existing.
Assuming you're in the unusual position of actually having budget for quality, here's what to spend it on.
You have probably never written a significant piece of correct software. Neither have I. Here's why that's not quite as bad as it sounds.