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It's clearly not complete shit, else it wouldn't be used by literally millions of people/systems. ExifTool is so far away from shit that in fact it was chosen by a highly respected company with a very good team.

A hackjob usually has less deploys than my own stuff (which, outside of Windows 2000 components, is less than a few millions)

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Just because something is useful doesn't mean it's not a hackjob.

Just looks at how PHP got so popular. Clearly it was useful and thus became popular. I think it's hard to argue that it wasn't a hackjob when it first started.

JavaScript is a perfect instance

Quite so. It was put together in a day, and we have to endure some of its quirks decades later.

By this reasoning "Baywatch" was a great TV show because lots of people saw it.

Baywatch was a great TV show. Maybe you don't like it. Millions all over the world do.

I have never seen it, but am aware of the low brow reputation. If you genuinely like it, could you tell me what you like about it? I recently saw some old episodes of Knight Rider and admit that the show was fun.

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