3 ms·
i do not understand what incentive there is for anyone to use this - after apple's deprecation of a standard they themselves conceived only 9 years ago [1]. Ber
by foxhill 8y ago
i do not understand what incentive there is for anyone to use this - after apple's deprecation of a standard they themselves conceived only 9 years ago [1]. Berkley sockets might not be the conceptually best approach, but their support is damn near universal.
[1] - https://www.khronos.org/opencl/ https://www.khronos.org/opencl/
- WoodenChair 8y agoThere are thousands of developers who make the choice to write apps for only one platform. They now have a better networking library. What don't you get about that? Not everyone chooses to write cross-platform. For people who don't write cross-platform apps, why would they ever want to use sockets instead of this much easier to use API?
- foxhill 8y agothe cross platform bit was a little disingenuous of me. what i was really trying to say was that in 9 years time from now, apple could deprecate it at the drop of a hat. sockets, on the other hand, are likely not going anywhere, and also have the benefit of existing everywhere, as they have for a long time.