2 ms·
The author explicitly mentions Fuchsia as going too far i.e. advocates for "let's try improving things little by little". > While these Unix reforms sound grea
by pdimitar 3y ago
The author explicitly mentions Fuchsia as going too far i.e. advocates for "let's try improving things little by little".
> While these Unix reforms sound great in theory, they somewhat disregard Unix’s practical, evolved nature.
To me that's a polite language for: it's a wild west of "oh crap, we forgot X, guess it's time for ungodly hacks in Y and Z".
I do somewhat agree with you though. Let's see what did our area's emergent behavior and hacks achieve and try to distill them in a more clean future API.