Comment by Rohansi
17 hours ago
> But they'll happily take a paycheck for writing a bunch of shit Go/Ruby/PHP code that runs on Linux 24/7 without downtime - not because of the quality of their code, but due to the reliability of the platform at _that_ particular task.
But does the lack of a stable ABI have any (negative) effect on the reliability of the platform?
Only for people who want to use it as a desktop replacement for Windows or MacOS I guess? There are no end of people complaining they can't get their wifi or sound card or trackpad working on (insert-obscure-Linux-distribution-here).
Like many others, I have Linux servers running over 2000-3000 days uptime. So I'm going to say no, it doesn't, not really.