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> POSIX fanbois

That's a weird and derogatory way to talk about people who appreciate having a standard which makes it easier to write cross-platform software.

EDIT: To expand on this comment and make it more productive. You're right. If the goal is to have first-class support for both Windows and POSIX-like platforms, the right approach is to have an understanding of what your software needs to do, what the POSIX APIs make easy, and what the Windows APIs make easy, and build abstractions which make sense based on that. But man, do I appreciate that if first-class Windows support isn't top priority, I can support essentially every other widely used platform in the world (including macOS) by just writing against the POSIX API, and I can even get okay-ish Windows support by using a POSIX compatibility layer on Windows. So my point isn't, "People who want to have first-class Windows support but do so through POSIX compatibility shims are doing it right".



> That's a weird and derogatory way to talk about people who appreciate having a standard which makes it easier to write cross-platform software.

When I say "POSIX fanbois" I mean "fanboys" (people that are unreasonably attached to this standard and try to use it everywhere without being level-headed about its usefulness). That probably doesn't include the people who actually wrote the standard, which are all (in my experience) pretty reasonable and realistic about the limitations of things they've created.


Unless my english fails me. The sentence you are answering isn't about people who wrote the standard?


> people that are unreasonably attached to this standard and try to use it everywhere without being level-headed about its usefulness

This is certainly a better way to put it!

But it's possible that they indeed mostly had the POSIX standard in mind when trying to create their software, possibly because that's what they were developing on (e.g. one of the *nix distros or something compatible) and that's what was available easily.

Support for Windows might have been a bit of an afterthought, or something that was added later. It's still better than nothing, even if not always viable.


It's not cross-platform if the only platform you support is POSIX.


POSIX is a standard, not a platform.


There was only one platform designed to be POSIX in all respects, the OSF/1 UNIX for the Alpha processor from Digital Equipment Corporation.

It was first known as DEC OSF/1, then Digital UNIX, then Tru64.

Previous to OSF/1, DEC had sold Ultrix, first on VAX, then on MIPS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX

The wiki says that OSF/1 was first released for MIPS, but that was before my time, and it wasn't supported for long.

I did use Ultrix on MIPS DECStations in college.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrix


POSIX is not a platform.




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