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  • …NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…

    …i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…

    edit:is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..


  • …i’m absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i’ve checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn’t matured into a stable production-ready platform: i’m not sure if that’s an artifact of technical viability or developer interest…




  • …in recent years i’ve grown comfortable noting that christians are f*cking evil, but in truth that seems to be the case with organised religion in general…

    …religion?..i suppose the evil is really in human nature and religion’s just a convenient tool to muster it…