4 Nov
2016
4 Nov
'16
4:11 a.m.
On 04.11.2016 06:42, Liam wrote:
Frankly, I've never understood why people think osx is, overall, technically inferior, especially for the desktop user. For example,
it depends on what part of the stack you look at: the high level desktop stuff is very good, but the POSIX implementation is horribly buggy, basic things like poll(2) may not actually work, with different bugs in different releases:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/11/poll-on-mac-10-12-is-broken/
so developers that write low-level portable software tend to hate macOS, while other developers who write non-portable desktop apps tend to love it.