[rleigh]

Proprietary stuff comes and goes. These are merely the latest in a long line of proprietary APIs. They were not so "little" in their time as well. This seems to come and go in cycles; maybe the new generation of developers will come to realise the folly of vendor-specific lockin just as the previous one did.

These new APIs will either stand the test of time and become standards in their own right (POSIX, after all, is codifying existing practice from multiple vendors). Or they will die with the end of life of the products using them.

It's worth noting that POSIX is the fundamental basis of all these products. It's not perfect, and there's certainly room for new revisions or even a complete replacement in the longer term. But open standards are worth fighting for any using, given the alternatives. We got the current open standards through it becoming a requirement that vendors provided them and supported them, and that came from grassroots developers pushing for it. The current big players will eventually have to do the same, and we can all play our part pushing them to do so.

[pjmlp]

POSIX is stuck on replicating a PDP-11 experience of CLI and daemons applications.

Not everyone wants to live in the past.