OK, in fairness, some portions of the Windows API are well though out as you mention. Some people may also argue that other APIs like Direct3D have a more conve

OK, in fairness, some portions of the Windows API are well though out as you mention. Some people may also argue that other APIs like Direct3D have a more convenient design. The UNIX philosophy ("Everything is a file") has pros and cons. It makes interoperability fairly trivial, and being a filesystem it has access control capabilities. If you want to have something similar to the Windows' IO Completion Ports (IOCP) paradigm you can make use of https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scheduler/completion.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scheduler/completio...