Comment on Why is Windows still bloated
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The idea of a rewrite is a newbie mistake. It is almost always wrong. joelonsoftware.com/…/things-you-should-never-do-p…
MacOS wasn’t rewritten, it was ported. It’s now bigger than before.
Linux has grown from 170k lines of code back when I used it to handle dns for 10k customers to 40 million lines today. It has never been “completely rewritten” . Is Linux a failure?
Imo MS has a need to keep Windows convoluted so as to stay on step ahead of cloners like Wine.
riskable@programming.dev 2 days ago
Whoah there! Mac OS was entirely rewritten from scratch (based upon some combination of FreeBSD and NextSTEP) when Steve Jobs rejoined Apple. Or are we pretending the eternal shame of Mac OS 7 never happened?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The OP said the Intel to Apple Silicon transition. That was after OS X. Nor was the earlier Mac OS a rewrite but adding a different GUI to Next step and calling it Mac OS X.