Re:(Disabled) assertions suck. Not Always. (Score 1)

I agree, there should be no assertions in any 'Release' code.

But I can't stress how useful they are in debugging your code, as long as they are only active in DEBUG mode!

I have asserts in every single exception in every piece of code. It makes debugging through that weird unicode input a decisive task, rather than looking at your code thinking... "Well it could be...".