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>exposing proprietary application APIs which fundamentally make applications unportable and thus contributing to the rise of Electron/RN. I don't think there's
by orbital-decay 8y ago
>exposing proprietary application APIs which fundamentally make applications unportable and thus contributing to the rise of Electron/RN.
I don't think there's anything modern about this.
- jakobegger 8y agoYeah, there is no standard for high level APIs provided by operating systems. Everybody has always just done their own stuff. And it's not like the Open Source world is any better, with Linux and the BSDs coming up with their own solutions for common issues. There's POSIX which is pretty great because it at least allows to write somewhat portable networking & io code. But for pretty much anything else, you'll have to write separate code for every OS, and it's always been the case.
- seanp2k2 8y agoEven within Linux, consider Wayland vs Xorg, systemd, etc.