Re:Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming
by pjmlp on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:24PM
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I think it comes from the folks that aren't really into Apple culture, rather they buy Apple because of UNIX, or want to target iDevices without culture background on the ecosystem.
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Re:Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming
by nullpoint420 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:32PM
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Bingo. I'm tired of people claiming that macOS (XNU more specifically) is just BSD under the hood. It's called X is not Unix for a reason!
I feel like so much awesome engineering in XNU around security and portability, as well as innovations like IOKit are swept under the rug because "it's just FreeBSD."
I still think it's a shame that more people don't take advantage of the Mach side of XNU more. Launchd and Mach ports are a powerful combination IMO.