> It's incompatible with modern debuggers.
Any debugger that can't debug this binary is broken and should be treated as such.
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by a1369209993 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @12:06AM
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That's true, but I think they meant that it fails to actively support debugging the way a not-broken-by-design modern executable file format should.
It's incompatible with modern debuggers.
It's incompatible with shared libraries.
It's limited to a feature-poor "unified" API (that might as well be seen as a crippled VM).
It's complex in both interface and implementation. The bad aspects of Unix made even worse.
The justifications make no sense whatsoever. It wants to do future-proofing but invents an adhoc "VM" with hardcoded OS interfaces that are meant to be treated as private. For macOS, I doubt binaries will work in the next release or two, nevermind 10 years.
It's a fun toy or troll, but if you're looking at this for serious work I suggest you steer well clear.