If people target Linux, SAY Linux. Do not contribute to the semantic mushiness which is already rife.
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2: actually very important ("windows supports `/` yo" "uhhh not with verbatim paths") has been a huge huge regression.
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3: But I think you're underestimating epoll/kqueue shimming, compiler/linker shimming, OpenSSL/crypto shimming, etc.
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4: OSX and Linux share a path model (but not exactly a file system model), but they diverge a huge amount in general.
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5: the reason most people don't perceive that is that a lot of "Unix" libraries are actually just "shimming the union of OSX and Linux"
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6: epoll and kqueue are a good enough exemplar of this phenomenon to drive a discussion about this, but there's way more.
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7: OSX+Linux=Unix causes people to believe it's morally virtuous to write abstractions that cover "Unix" but not Windows. Usually a mistake.
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I think people do a back of napkin calculation on how much effort it'll take to support windows, and decide they have better things to do
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Seems like we owe 90% of computer users more.
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I am here to tell you, from extensive painful experience, that it is not enough.
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