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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by dmitriid on Friday May 01, 2020 @05:10AM (#23040344)
In reality, there are very very few people who care about POSIX compatibility. Because there are no POSIX-compatible systems in the wild.

POSIX-certified systems conform to different POSIX standards. And most of them are of no use to the average developer such as AIX, HP-UX, Solaris.

The rest are largely compatible which means they are not compatible. And yes, that includes every single one of Linux distributions and FreeBSD.

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Re:Rust/WinRT Public Preview by DeathArrow on Friday May 01, 2020 @08:09AM (#23041217)
I am beginning to think that while POSIX, Unix and X11 might have been innovative and very useful in the '70s and ' 80s, now they are really old and most of the computing landscape changed.

We need better operating systems metaphors.

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