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Just like CPU opcodes have failed... POSIX is a low level interface, that of the OS and the C library. It's another level of abstraction, necessary for the on
by gkya 10y ago
Just like CPU opcodes have failed... POSIX is a low level interface, that of the OS and the C library. It's another level of abstraction, necessary for the ones that are building other levels on top of it.
- johannes1234321 10y agoCPU opcodes have a different purpose. POSIX aims to be an API for general purpose application development.
- AsyncAwait 10y ago...for UNIX systems, where we're talking about mostly CLI apps, since POSIX was released a decade before the iPhone. I'd say if you can run bash and gcc on Linux, OSX and BSD, it mostly succeeded.