On Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 02:48:06 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 09/19/2018 02:33 AM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
What drives me mad is when you have library writers who try to
"protect" you from the underlying system by translating
everything you do into what they "think" you're trying to do.
What drives me mad is when allegedly cross-platform tools
deliberately propagate non-cross-platform quirks that could
easily be abstracted away and pretend that's somehow "helping"
me instead of making a complete wreck of the whole point of
cross-platform. Bonus points if they're doing it mainly to help
with my C++-standard premature optimizations.
If I actually want to deal with platform-specific quirks, then
I'll use the platform's API directly. (And then I'll beat
myself with a brick, just for fun.)
+1
A cross-platform library has to be designed to operate in the
same way on each supported platform, even if this means that it's
harder to implement on some platform, or that some platforms will
need more complicated implementations.
That's the whole point of this "HAL" approach.
