> That's not to say that nothing is moving forward, but the fact that people are unhappy with a technology doesn't mean that technology is objectively inferior

> That's not to say that nothing is moving forward, but the fact that people are unhappy with a technology doesn't mean that technology is objectively inferior to a proposed replacement. Sometimes it's just fashion. I apologise for writing so much that you couldn't read all of it, but this part, whilst buried at the end of the first paragraph was really important: > > the non-POSIX apis are much faster than the POSIX api -- especially the ones that are harder to mix with the POSIX api. That they are better in this objective way is why this particular kind of unhappiness demonstrates what I say, even if you're not otherwise interested in people being happy.