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1. Be that as it may, no one is idiot enough to create their life's work on a proprietary platform. 2. Which is why commercial unixes are being supplanted by FO
by melted 11y ago
1. Be that as it may, no one is idiot enough to create their life's work on a proprietary platform.
2. Which is why commercial unixes are being supplanted by FOSS. And it far easier to do than, eg porting anything from Windows to anything else.
3. WinAPI is a verbose, poorly designed turd, so that doesn't really help your argument any.
- catnaroek 11y agoI'm primarily a Linux user, and only use Windows at work, and don't consider POSIX precisely the pinnacle of tasteful API design.
- melted 11y agoIt doesn't have to run faster than the bear. It only has to run faster than the other guy.
- catnaroek 11y agoIt isn't clear to me that POSIX is strictly better than the Windows API in all respects. For instance, synchronizing processes manipulating a common file is very awkward in POSIX.