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Comment by suby

9 months ago

The audacity to call this shameful is striking to me. If you feel strongly enough that this free, open source, extremely limited resource project (working on one of the largest problem spaces..) doesn't support FreeBSD, port it yourself instead of casting shame on others for not doing it. Hopefully your comment is more lighthearted than I'm giving it credit for.

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doublerabbit  9 months ago

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  • _xivi  9 months ago

    It's not out of carelessness or spite. The developer(s) can only support something they use at least semi-regularly.

    Many developers who use Windows don't support Linux for example (and vice versa). Even if the code were cross platform. They simply can't claim to support something they don't use themselves or have resources to test extensively because it'll requires continous support and there can be a lot of incompatabilities even among different linux distros or environments.

    That's why, in OSS, support for different platforms is usually done by having a separate engineer as maintainer for each platform, e.g: Linux drivers, gcc (for different CPU architectures), etc. These maintainers are each experts in their respective platforms and responsible for supporting it.