(firefox-esr:345): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failedNever having programmed in Gtk, what is the cause of this? Is Gtk broken or are all the programmers using it incorrectly? I've programmed a great deal in WinAPI and stuff like that never happens.
There's a bunch of boilerplate code that just gets carried from project to project.
My favourite was when KDE decided to move to cmake. People realized that most m4/autoconf macros were there for no reason and no one actually knew what they checked for let alone how.
Don't even get me started on the circular dependencies that need to be broken by installing packages with some options disabled. Kind of an awkward bootstrap.
We do our own hardware and kernel development (upstream kernel + .ko's for our stuff) and that's good code. Then we have the daemons in userland providing interfaces to ioctl's and cdevs, with some house keeping and interfaces for DBus and HTTP APIs.
All the userland stuff just vomits GLib-CRITICAL messages. No one bothers to check for them because everything is running as daemons with stderr redirected to /dev/null...
And $WORK is one of the better places I've worked at. I am certain that if those assertions would have been fatal, they would have been fixed a long time ago.