[parshimers]

This reads like a less amusing version of the UNIX-HATERS handbook. The citation on the Linux kernel containing "a whole lot of very low quality code" is a Slashdot post. The author claims that there is "No high level, stable, sane (truly forward and backward compatible) and standardized API for developing GUI applications" like it's something that exists anywhere, and cites Win32 as an example to be followed instead of a painful business decision by one company.

[mschuster91]

The win32 API set is... dated to say the least, but commercial software vendors value stability. If I were a software vendor, I'd really not like having my developers waste countless hours on keeping up with externally-forced changes.

That's also a reason why Electron is so successful: it abstracts all that bullshit away.

[itvision]

From the article:

> Keep in mind that this list serves the purpose of showing what needs to be fixed in Linux rather than finding faults in it.