alt Hacker NewsMSVC support for C is fairly terrible. For the projects we write that are portable to Windows we insist you use GCC or Clang on Windows. No one has time to deal with the lack of even standard C1x/C2x features (never mind useful extensions like attribute cleanup).
Surprised about FreeBSD. My experience is that porting Linux software is usually pretty easy as long as it's not using some Linux-only feature (io_uring for instance).
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jstimpfle • yesterday at 8:12 PM
What do you even miss, honestly works fine for me? In terms of platform APIs, I prefer the Windows ones on Windows anyway
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> Surprised about FreeBSD. My experience is that porting Linux software is usually pretty easy as long as it's not using some Linux-only feature (io_uring for instance).
I'm not sure why you're surprised, the parent of you comment clearly stated
"on FreeBSD you often run into systemd dependencies or other non-posix behaviors"
which means, software written for Linux often uses "Linux-only features" such as systemd and other non-posix dependencies that are foreign to the BSDs and traditional UNIX. Thus, it shouldn't be surprising that Linux software is hard to port to the BSDs.
Linux used to be a pretty good UNIX, I'm not sure what it is now.