On 05/11/16 05:45, Liam wrote:
They're less concerned about people writing portable code than having to
implement, arguably, poor crossplatform standards (YAYS! everyone get
the to enjoy the same, suboptimal experience!). So, like the above blog
mentions, they have a rather neglected poll and instead, simliar to NT,
want people to use "their" event monitors (kqueue,iocp,epoll). Now, iocp
is quite different, and harder to support, but even then we have helpers
like libevent or libuv.
I'm thinking about iokit (on the very lowest level) and the various core
services that allow mac to have such fantastic apps (and happy devs).
The issue is more fundamental than just implementing "kits".
An operating system has to decide if it is made to be a desktop, a
server, a mobile device OS etc.
Most of the server oriented software is available in all *NIX platforms,
because portability and choice is more valuable than leveraging specific
OS features. The way that server software-houses do business, forces
then to use "standards", most de facto, but standards nonetheless.
Fedora, and by extension RHEL, have to decide if they want to be a
desktop OS, a server OS or say a mobile OS. (not a distro, this is a
bailout IMO).
Pretending to be both server and desktop does not lead anywhere.
In my (really) humble opinion. :)
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