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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Then you still won't fix all the bugs. Time is your enemy, and new hardware and its requirements will introduce their own bugs.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago

Wouldn't that be akin to adding new features? Adding support for previously unsupported (due to their lack of existance) hardware is a feature imo.

Besides, while a program may eventually be bug-free, no modern computer has flawless hardware so creating a large program without bugs will always remain a thought experiment.

The only possible reason to do it would be if an alien civilization were to demand producing such a program or else they'd destroy Earth (similar to Erdős's thought experiment with finding Ramsey numbers). Perhaps with all of humanity's resources and a few decades this could be done.