Developers who love and hate file systems, join me in this. Every time I meet someone who works at Microsoft, and I mean just about *every* time, I bring up a specific and important point. One simple way Microsoft can improve their operating system. Unix filesystem conventions.
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It usually goes like: "Oh, I don't really work on that" No, but you work at the same company. You're probably within 2 layers of org chart from each other. Tell your boss and coworkers I suggested this.
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"Heh, ok, I'll mention it" No, I mean it, say "Isaac Schlueter said we should ditch drive letters and backslashes, and use / and mount points instead, and implement win32 compatibility on top of POSIX instead of the other way around, and asked me to tell you specifically this"
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"Ok, sure, lol. But anyway, can't you just use a tool that abstracts away the difference?" Let me show you some of those tools. Let me show you a sad dev telling people their bugs cannot be fixed, due to semantic problems re file locking. (gesture dramatically at myself)
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Tell them, "this is why every developer uses a macintosh laptop", and as you say this, gesture to your laptop and theirs, and tell them, "This is why Microsoft lost the most important compute platform that exists, after the web." Win32 must go the way of Mac OS Classic.
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There’s a lot of classic Mac OS still in modern macOS, unfortunately.
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