Comment by int_19h 5 days ago macOS breaks backwards compatibility all the time, and yet... 1 comment int_19h Reply sokoloff 4 days ago Other than security-related changes, as a user, I find macOS to be quite generous about its evolution, supporting deprecated APIs for many years, etc.SIP and the transition to a read-only system volume are the only two things that I remember broke things that I noticed.It’s not Windows-level of backwards compatibility, but it’s quite good overall from the user side.
sokoloff 4 days ago Other than security-related changes, as a user, I find macOS to be quite generous about its evolution, supporting deprecated APIs for many years, etc.SIP and the transition to a read-only system volume are the only two things that I remember broke things that I noticed.It’s not Windows-level of backwards compatibility, but it’s quite good overall from the user side.
Other than security-related changes, as a user, I find macOS to be quite generous about its evolution, supporting deprecated APIs for many years, etc.
SIP and the transition to a read-only system volume are the only two things that I remember broke things that I noticed.
It’s not Windows-level of backwards compatibility, but it’s quite good overall from the user side.