[coldtea]

>Who cares if it's a fine idea in theory, when in reality it's completely unpractical. What you call 'worse' is a model that works.

"Completely unpractical" is quite an exaggeration. OS X has used them for 15 years and things are working as they should for 99.9999 of the people in 99.9999 of the cases.

You'll read more complaints/confusion about way more standard POSIX/UNIXY features that you'll see about resource forks -- which are mostly hidden under the hood.

>If people actively start storing critical data in resource forks (as it was done in the case of the font), a lot of other things will break.

You mentioned "reality" but this is a hypothetical scenario.

People don't "start storing critical data in resource forks". Apple uses them for specific things it knowns how to handle and that they don't need to be shared outside HFS boundaries.