On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 21:16:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Yeah, though if you write cross-platform applications or libraries (and ideally, most applications and libraries would be platform-agnostic), you can't necessarily avoid all of the Windows insanity, even if you yourself use a platform without those problems.

Linux generally allows you to go ahead and use the filesystem as a database, and this works pretty well in a lot of cases. Filesystem performance is much better, and so are the limitations - not just the path length as discussed in this thread, but also the range of valid characters (anything except / and NUL is fine). Plus, depending on your choice of filesystem, you get bonus features like snapshots, incremental backups, and deduplication. It's a boon for prototyping (or Linux-only software).

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