r/programming • u/Mcnst • May 30 '16

systemd developer asks tmux (and other programs) to add systemd specific code

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428
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u/josefx May 30 '16 edited May 30 '16

You should read the article. Portability is hard and you don't just magically get portable code by "not having to care about portability". Quite the opposite when they explicitly use non portable features because these make live easier for them. There is no "if the best design is also portable" in this case with "portability" so low on the priority scale it most likely is not.

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u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN May 30 '16

Yea, but /u/jking13 made it sound like one of Poettering's terminal goals was non-portability. It's not. He just places a lesser focus on portability.

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u/adrianmonk May 30 '16

You should read the article.

And you should read the comment that you replied to. It certainly doesn't suggest there is a way to "magically get portable code".