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> bad the Linux project is at changing their ABI and how good OpenBSD is at the same task From my perspective as a user who wants to have his programs keep wor
by badsectoracula 1y ago
> bad the Linux project is at changing their ABI and how good OpenBSD is at the same task
From my perspective as a user who wants to have his programs keep working whenever the OS updates and as a programmer who does not want to waste their time playing nanny with broken dependency upgrades for previously working code (working in the sense that it did what it was supposed to do), the Linux project is actually doing the thing the right way and OpenBSD the bad way. It is basically the #1 reason i never considered using OpenBSD.
Linux' stance on not breaking backwards compatibility is exactly what i want from an OS. Now if only the userspace libraries weren't so happy to break things too...