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nonportability is typically a design goal of systemd. See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-

• DasIch 11y ago
  Nonportability isn't a goal, portability though isn't. Portability isn't all that great a goal to begin with. You limit yourself to a lowest common denominator and sometimes you need to make compromises between platforms. This makes it very hard to impossible to do truly innovative and good things. GUIs and the web in particular are the perfect example. Every GUI that's not specifically designed for a platform is always worse than the native solution. Additionally the web is laughably behind. Trivial WebGL experiments that you could do natively decades ago regularly hit the HN frontpage. On a lower level you have C which is bad for many reasons but one of them is trying to be portable and so you end up with not being able to assume 2's complement. Whenever you can do without portability, you're probably better off ignoring it.
  • vezzy-fnord 11y ago
    The web is laughably behind not because of portability concerns, but because it fundamentally began as a poor man's hypertext system that could be hacked up in two weeks for linking together CERN's document archives. Web browsers are an interesting experiment in that they're virtual machines that began from a mostly blank state independent of their host, and progressively had to rediscover decades of CS research (often haphazardly) to get them in their current state. That said, nothing truly innovative is being done with systemd to begin with.