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> Not everyone wants UNIX clones Technically OS X is a "UNIX clone" > and there are toons of goodies on the OS X You mean there is a Clippy for OSX?
by pawadu 10y ago
> Not everyone wants UNIX clones
Technically OS X is a "UNIX clone"
> and there are toons of goodies on the OS X
You mean there is a Clippy for OSX?
- pjmlp 10y ago> Technically OS X is a "UNIX clone" Yes it is, but it doesn't share the UNIX culture, rather the GUI culture inherited from the Xerox PARC ideas that impregnated Apple and NeXT. The UNIX compatibility was a requirement for NeXT to get a foot in the market targeted by Sun and Irix workstations. Apple and NeXT never had a culture of pure CLI applications and daemons.
- wruza 10y agoRecently I familiarized myself with Qt, that is often presented as core windows/linux framework. Half of linux apps is Qt. Years ago I also knew GTK+ 2.x very well. The other half is GTK. From developers perspective, Cocoa+AppKit/UIKit are orders of magnitude more powerful and conception-rich, and that is easily seen in UX, once you get base skills in it (i.e. stop believing 'it cannot do that', because 'it' mostly can).
- _acme 10y agoTechnically, macOS is UNIX, not a "clone".