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The article is the other way around -- it's written from the perspective of a platform developer trying to deal with apps that didn't anticipate the situation.
by kentonv 3y ago
The article is the other way around -- it's written from the perspective of a platform developer trying to deal with apps that didn't anticipate the situation.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoThanks for the clarification, you're correct. The nuance/complexity is that the platform developer must conform to a platform spec (in this case, the Windows API) that usually makes some underlying assumptions about the capabilities of the system that runs it, which may not always be correct.
- kentonv 3y agoYes, I'd add to that by pointing out that the "spec" is a de facto spec subject to Hyrum's Law, that is, people have built their apps against other implementations of the platform and inevitably don't handle any behavior not seen on those other implementations.