While I trust the author to do this (thankfully, as he's my coworker) there is a lot of Linux software that doesn't, even assuming it was updated in the last year and you're running something vaguely bleeding edge (not Debian).
Some people using a completely different kind of OS insist in continuing to use a version from 2009, instead of its more recent version. I guarantee you that this version from 2009 also has its share of dark APIs, some of which have been fixed in the modern version...
Yet I've yet to find articles titled like if all of them are equally broken, while the content would precisely describe the caveats to do not-broken things on the capable recent releases.