It’s not unreasonable from the outside to think a custom server-tuned version of Darwin would make sense for Apple’s in-house server needs.
The reality of Apple internal systems: Things are mostly stuck together with duct tape. There is no Temple of Purity.
It's a beautiful fantasy, though.
To be honest, I have yet to see a company where internal things are not mostly stuck together with duct tape.
Probably Google?
Re:KDE Connect Now Available on iOS
by WastingMyTime89 on Sunday May 15, 2022 @07:18AM
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Doubtful. Even their customer products used different OS. It’s probably a controlled mess.
There is that meme about trying to get something into production at Google. And I thought nothing's worse than Facebook.
Re:KDE Connect Now Available on iOS
by ThePowerOfFuet on Sunday May 15, 2022 @03:49AM
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It shows.
But why would they spend any energy on developing and maintaining Darwin for that purpose when Linux is already there and free?
Yeah, maybe in some parallel reality Apple poured a ton of effort into Darwin as a standalone platform and made it a great server OS. It's hard to imagine nowadays, but there was a time when it seemed like it might not be such a fantasy. It's probably still technically possible, but I have a hard time seeing how it makes sense for them.
Maybe BSD would fit better with their lineage, but Linux has far better enterprise vendor support.