I think the reason this is getting a negative reaction is because he doesn't really clearly state the problem he's actually trying to solve until the end (and d

I think the reason this is getting a negative reaction is because he doesn't really clearly state the problem he's actually trying to solve until the end (and describes it as "bonus chatter" when it's actually just a much better explanation than he gives at the top of the article). > To clear up some confusion: The idea here is that the printing API has always existed on desktop, where printing is supported, and the “get me the list of printers” function is documented not to throw an exception. If you want to port the printing API to Xbox, how do you do it in a way that allows existing desktop apps to continue to run on Xbox? The inert behavior is completely truthful: There are no printers on an Xbox. Nobody expects the answer to the question, “How many printers are there?” to be “How dare you ask me such a thing!” If he just used the words "existing desktop apps" in the second paragraph of the article instead of the second to last, I don't think people would be reacting so negatively. Instead, when he talks about avoiding "gaslighting" by returning an invalid pointer by just gaslighting in a different way by lying about the error that occurred, it almost sounds unhinged.