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Re:Google Proposes New Mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall for Linux by izacus on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:50AM (#37916031)
Only for people who haven't developed for any other OS :P

There are some APIs that are real stinkers (and quite a few of them obviously targeted at use of a single Google app and noone cared to actually make them good APIs).

Several of them are really well thought out and designed to the point that iOS devs were envious for years.

Gain some, lose some. It's not the best API surface, but it aint GTK or Win32 either.

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Re:Google Proposes New Mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall for Linux by whoisthemachine on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:32PM (#37922491)
I haven't worked with GTK, but I can agree that Win32's APIs are also a mess, affected by decades of layers of compatibility. The WinForms API, however, still tends to be quite nice.
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