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I think the "POSIX hellhole" is really just the Linux hellhole; there's no reason the underlying implementation or the desktop on top of it needs to be that way
by waddlesplash 7y ago
I think the "POSIX hellhole" is really just the Linux hellhole; there's no reason the underlying implementation or the desktop on top of it needs to be that way (and Haiku is more or less succeeding at being POSIX and not a hellhole :)
- alxlaz 7y agoOh yeah, don't get me started on the Linux hellhole :). I like Haiku (in fact I keep putting off that weekend when I'll try my hand at fixing a bug or writing a new app for it, because I really liked BeOS back in the day, too). A lot of it isn't even POSIX' fault, it was just abused by things built on top of it, and now you can't use those things without making a mess. I know a lot of it like the back of my hand, I've been writing POSIX code (or, at one point, POSIX implementations) for much, if not most of my career. That doesn't mean I don't want to see something better, or that I'm blind at the fact that Plan 9 is so fun to code for precisely because they skipped POSIX (although, that being said, I'm also not blind to the fact that it's on of the big reasons why it never really took off, either).