Windows vs UNIX is like RISC vs CISC on cpus: each one has its flaws and advantages. The unix api philosophy is to keep the functions as simple as possible, and achieve the same tasks through serquences of configuration calls, rather than big monolithic APIs that have the settings all specified explicitly.
I'm not going to argue which one is best, as my personal preference falls in between, if only slightly closer to the Windows way. The Windows API is often overengineered, while the unix way feels overly simplistic. In fact, the comparison between Windows and unix here is pointless: this project is reimplementing Windows, not unix. Anyone who truly thinks ReactOS won't be used becuase they already have Linux, probably wouldn't care about the project and so wouldn't be writing to our mailing list. I believe Riccardo referred to people developing apps for ReactOS/NT5, when they can write them for NT6 instead. On 22 May 2016 at 13:41, Love Nystrom <love.nyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2016-05-18 02.10, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti <riccardo.kyo...@live.it> > wrote: > >> It's not like developers are gonna pick up again an old (and, honestly, >> bad!) architecture just because it is made free, when *here and now* we >> already have a better alternative. >> > > Bad architecture ? Compared to Linux ? I refute that on the strongest. > > F.ex: Linux lacks, even to this day, a unified graphics API like GDI > (X-Windows notwithstanding), and window manager. > Instead they have a plethora of disparate kludges and hacks on top of > X-Windows, all more or less cumbersome to use. > The API flora of the Windows architecture should, by rights, make Linux > programmers green with envy ;-) > (Why do you think the WinE project was born in the first place?) > > Best Regards > // Neo > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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