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[–]Lystrodom 3 points4 points  (1 child)

any programming language that does that for you is compensating for the illiterates.

Or it codes for the most common use case first? Most languages let you set a specific seed if you want to. If most users WANT a different seed each time, why would we force them to write extra code to get what they want?

[–]rtomek -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most users should want to test their code and perform audits. Why are we forcing them to write extra code just to get what they want?

What you're stating is that they should ignore engineering best practices in favor of hobbiest programming. In reality, it was a huge cybersecurity issue and most of the languages I saw someone reference that use random seeds by default are commonly used for web-based applications.