Comment by pjmlp
1 year ago
I think it comes from the folks that aren't really into Apple culture, rather they buy Apple because of UNIX, or want to target iDevices without culture background on the ecosystem.
1 year ago
I think it comes from the folks that aren't really into Apple culture, rather they buy Apple because of UNIX, or want to target iDevices without culture background on the ecosystem.
Bingo. I'm tired of people claiming that macOS (XNU more specifically) is just BSD under the hood. It's called X is not Unix for a reason!
I feel like so much awesome engineering in XNU around security and portability, as well as innovations like IOKit are swept under the rug because "it's just FreeBSD."
I still think it's a shame that more people don't take advantage of the Mach side of XNU more. Launchd and Mach ports are a powerful combination IMO.