(To head off objections: iOS and Android are “Unix-like” in that they run Unix-like kernels, but as far as an app developer is concerned they’re nothing like Unix.)
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Thankfully, SeL4 and Zircon continue this. Although only Zircon of those has a decent developer experience of sorts.
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I think that really depends on what you mean by Unix-like. If you're thinking that Unix-like means that applications are expected to rely on OS provided libs and install to OS-owned directories such as /usr, /usr/local... then yes I agree, iOS and Android aren't Unix-like.
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But if I may be honest, that's the worst part of *nix. Apps should rely only on an app runtime provided by the OS and nothing else. The idea to save disk & RAM by having apps unrelated to the OS depend on the OS to manage core dependencies is a build system & testing nightmare.
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Aren't they BSD and Linux underneath, respectively?
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android and ios are more libraries than an OS. Unix still there.
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I don’t know about Android, but iOS is enough like Unix that you can (and many do) grab OpenSSL and jam it into their app, and other Unix:POSIX libraries.
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