Anyone can submit a patch on the C side to make this less of a problem, but if it's not a problem for most people on the C side, why wouldn't it get fixed in go

Anyone can submit a patch on the C side to make this less of a problem, but if it's not a problem for most people on the C side, why wouldn't it get fixed in go or rust instead? The cycle goes: "it's hard to support a lot of platforms" -> "let's support a common interface" -> "posix sucks" -> "it's hard to support a lot of platforms" Changing posix means distributing your work among all of the platforms rather than adding your own implementations and confirming they work on everything. Not likely to get buy in unless something is causing problems for whoever is paying those platform developers, or libc maintainers.