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140 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pjmlp ◴[22 Oct 24 13:29 UTC] No.41914057[source]▶
So here we have again how "Worse is better" works in practice, and how we got here regarding /tmp in 2024.
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anthk ◴[22 Oct 24 13:57 UTC] No.41914337[source]▶
As if C:\TEMP or %tmpdir% were any better.

Or using letters as drivers.

Worse is better? A lot of tech in Win32 is built as if it were for DOS 1.0 or CP/M. See AUX, PRN, COM and so.

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1. pjc50 ◴[22 Oct 24 14:45 UTC] No.41914828[source]▶
Backward compatibility, innit.

Microsoft have tried to get people to use the newer, more heavily sandboxed APIs like UWP, but only very weakly, and they haven't committed to transitioning their own apps over as dogfood. Nearest they've got is actually migrating a lot of office to the cloud as Office365.

Sunsetting Win32, or even having significant backwards-compatibility breaks, would upset so many corporate customers who would then refuse to upgrade.