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Curl runs on at least 89 operating systems[0]. Apparently 88 of them are then better at "being Linux" than Windows. [0]https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/wp-content/u

• reisse 4y ago
  How many from that 89 operating systems are either Linux-based (ChromeOS, Android) or real Unices (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, mac)? Edit: And there are at least 4 Windows flavours in the list!
  • matja 4y ago
    4? Chrome OS, Android, Qubes OS, Linux
  • marcosdumay 4y ago
    Some extremely different systems: Fuchsia, Cisco IOS, Garmin OS, QNX, RISC OS, Haiku, z/OS and the entire family, Blackberry 10. There are probably more there. I recognize about half of those names only. Are you really saying that it's normal to be harder to port some software into Windows than into z/OS?
    • reisse 4y ago
      > Are you really saying that it's normal to be harder to port some software into Windows than into z/OS? No, I'm saying that from 89 OSes mentioned on that picture, a lot of them are better at being *nix because they are *nix. But answering your question, sure! The only good thing in POSIX is that you have easy access to a lot of *nix software. Other than that, POSIX is a spectacularly bad API. Windows doesn't really care about running *nix software natively, because most of Windows userbase just want and use different things. Therefore, why invest into a bad API? For those wanting to use *nix software on Windows, there is Cygwin or WSL anyway.
• bogantech 4y ago
  From the image: "Operating systems known to have run curl" How many of them are supported in mainline Curl, aren't POSIX and aren't dead operating systems?
  • einr 4y ago
    The mainline curl repository* maintains code for supporting OS/400, AmigaOS, RISC OS, MS-DOS, Mac OS 9, and more that aren't even remotely POSIX. What is a dead operating system anyway, and how is that relevant to the point that Windows is the hardest OS to maintain support for? * See for instance the config-*.h files in https://github.com/curl/curl/tree/1c567f797bce0befce109bceac6cf751331ae43f/lib https://github.com/curl/curl/tree/1c567f797bce0befce109bceac...
    • bogantech 4y ago
      > What is a dead operating system anyway No longer maintained / barely changing, like MS-DOS, Mac OS 9, Amiga OS (which does occasionally get an update but usually not much in the way of core changes) It's relevant because Windows is a moving target and the dead operating systems aren't so there's not a lot of support work needed for them nor will there be as much of a user base.
• aew4ytasghe5 4y ago
  Well, then Windows is better at being Windows. I see Windows, Windows CE, XBox and even MS-DOS on that list.
• alkonaut 4y ago
  Many of them are better at being unix-y because they are Unixes or Unix clones. Apart from Windows, which squares remain if one removes any Unix/linux derivative?
  • einr 4y ago
    AmigaOS Mac OS 9 DR DOS OS/2 VMS Windows CE z/OS MorphOS Atari FreeMiNT OS/400 [...] Actually probably a fourth (EDIT: after looking more closely, make that ~half) or so of the list are not in any way UNIX.
    • yencabulator 4y ago
      The real joke is that people defending Windows' oddity by saying it's a VMS clone, where curl authors apparently consider actual VMS an easier platform to support.
• bmitc 4y ago
  The `Invoke-WebRequest` and `Invoke-RestMethod` PowerShell commandlets seem to work fine on Linux.
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