Is there a name for a fallacy like "appeal to stupidity" or something where the argument against using a tool that's fit for the job boils down to "All developers are too dumb to use this/you need to read a manual/it's hard" etc etc?
It also depends on the team, some teams have a high density of seasoned experts who've made the mistakes and know what to avoid but I think the history on mem vulns show that it's very hard to keep that bar consistently across large codebases or disperse teams.
Grandparent can’t argue that these top tier engineers aren’t RTFM here. Of course they are. Even after the manual reading they still cannot manage to write perfectly safe code. Because it is extremely hard to do
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Yes you need to read the docs. That is programming 101. If you have vim set up properly then you can open the man page for the identifier under your cursor in a single keypress. There is ZERO excuse not to read the manual. There is no excuse not to check error messages. etc.
Yet we consistently see people that want everything babyproofed.
On the other hand, there's no excuse for designers & developers (or their product manager, if that's the one in authority) not to work their ass off on the ergonomics/affordance of the tools they release to any public (be it end users or developers, which are the end users of the tool makers, etc.).
It benefits literally everyone: the users, the product reputation & value, the builders reputation, the support team, etc.
And yet...
Do people read the docs? Often, no, they don't. So, are you creating tools for the people we have, or for the people you think we should have? If the latter, you are likely to find that your tool makes less impact than you think it should.
Computer languages are not tools for illiterates. You need to learn what you're doing. And yet, programmers do so less than we think they should. If we don't license programmers (to weed out the under-trained), then we're going to have to deal with languages being used by people who didn't read the docs. We should give at least some thought to having them degrade gracefully in that situation.