What is a Footgun? | A braindump of unfinished ideas that are just not there yet
I call some things ‘footguns’. What do I mean with that? A footgun is a gun that is designed to shoot yourself in the foot. I don’t know anything about guns, I have no use for them. But I’ve heard about this phrase and the idea stuck:
A footgun is a piece of code that is designed to do the wrong thing easily.