Linda-chan
Рэмонд Чен рассказывает, почему Microsoft – не Apple, и обратная совместимость в Windows работает не так, как в макосе.
https://devblogs.microsoft....ewthing/20240902-00/
В камментах попалось прекрасное:
This is the kind of policy choice that shows the value (and required tradeoffs) of a stable API. If this were google they’d change in a heart beat, older phones would stop working sooner, and everybody would just nod and agree that the e-waste was totally worth the (minor) API improvement. And again, next year the cycle would repeat, except this time the API would be debatably improved. And next year, Lo! Again with the change, breaking old phones. But this time for a demonstrably worse API with fewer features, and harder to use too. So the Microsoft way may lead to some thorns and rough spots in the API that are 20+ years old. But the other way eventually leads to madness. In fact MS isn’t immune to this issue, lots of little changes have accrued to the win32 API that are of debatable advantage, but astronomically fewer than in the android world. I get the sense that Apple is somewhere in-between?
