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There are other replies talking about Apple or whatever but I'll be honest: because 2 decades of online forum experience and FOSS development tells me that the final paragraph is exactly what happens anytime you change things like this and they are exposed to turbo-nerds, despite the fact they are often poorly educated and incredibly ill-informed about the topics at hand. You see it here in spades on HN. It doesn't have anything to do with Apple, either; plenty of FOSS maintainers could tell you similar horror stories. I mean it's literally just a paraphrase of an old XKCD.

To be fair though, I mean. I'm mostly a bitchy nerd, too. And broadly speaking, taking the piss is just good fun sometimes. That's the truth, at least for me.

If it helps, simply close your eyes and imagine a very amped up YouTuber saying what I wrote above. But they're doing it while doing weird camera transitions, slow-mo shots of panning up the side of some Mac Mini or whatever. They are standing at a desk with 4 computers that are open-mobo with no case, and 14 GPUs on a shelf behind them. Also the video is like 18 minutes long for some reason. It's pretty funny then, if you ask me.

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For sure, I don't think I disagree with anything you've written here. Where I take umbrage is when there is no choice involved though. Apple could very well provide both a high-level, stable library while also exposing lower-level bindings that are expected to break constantly. If the low-level library is as bad and broken as people say it is, then they should have no problem marketing their high-level bindings as a solution. This is a mentality that frustrates me on many levels of their stack; their choice of graphics API and build systems being just a few other examples.

Maybe this works for some people. I can't knock someone for an opinionated implementation of a complicated system. At the same time though, we can't be surprised when other people have differing opinions, and in a perfect society we wouldn't try to crucify people for making those opinions clear. Apple notoriously lacks a dialogue with their community about this stuff, which is what starts all of this pointless infighting in the first place. Apple does what Apple does, and nerds will fight over it until the heat death of the universe. There really is nothing new under the sun. Mocking the ongoing discussion is almost as phyrric as claiming victory for either side.