[Info-vax] redbean and the Actually Portable Executable

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-06-20 21:29:00 +0000, John Dallman said:

> Microsoft and Apple both seem to have got stuck on the idea that if 
> they can invent the perfect way of doing application development, 
> they'll suddenly win the computing industry.

DEC was fond of that general approach too, back in the IT-antediluvian 
era. DEC EMA was a step or three too far for too many, for instance. 
And OSI missed the networking market.

Big tech companies have their own environments within the wider market.

Microsoft has its programming languages, and so too does Apple with 
Objective C and more recently Swift.

Microsoft is making a bigger push into hosted services with Azure than 
has Apple with iCloud.

Architectural-level work is great fun to work on and very valuable when 
it all works out, but getting your work both built and then adopted is 
rather harder than many might realize. And architectural 
astronautics—when you miss—can clobber everybody.

> I have seen serious Apple developers express bafflement at the limited 
> take up of Apple methods: "They're offering three new (and different) 
> GUI toolkits! How can people not want to use them?"

UIKit, AppKit, and more recently SwiftUI. WWDC22 made it clear SwiftUI 
was where Apple are headed, and they've now added the means to perform 
incremental migrations from UIKit and AppKit to SwiftUI.

A number of folks waited for Swift itself to get to ABI and API 
stability, as the language was a moving target for a while. There are 
discussions of code churn and of opportunity costs to be had there, too.


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