phobo's std.file is completely broke!

Thu Sep 20 02:48:06 UTC 2018

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.)