Comment by AdieuToLogic
14 hours ago
> One thing that scares me a little is whether there are younger developers, say, 25-40, who can and want to pick up the mantle of Windows internals gurus.
A similar "brain drain" has occurred in macOS (formerly known as OS-X) over the years, as evident in man page documentation for "newer" daemons shipped. An easy way to verify this is to run:
ps -A | awk '{ print $4 }' | grep 'libexec/.*[a-z]d$'
And compare the man pages for the daemons running with the man page for `launchd`.
While this exercise is illuminating, it is also depressing IMHO.
> formerly known as OS-X
It was never OS-X, it was OS X, and originally Mac OS X, as in the one after Mac OS 9. The Mac prefix was dropped with Lion (10.7). The Mac OS lingo having itself been introduced with 7.6, before that the OS core was called System.
And the documentation, now it is mostly generated, the famous Apple books are now gone, at least the archive is still available.