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by IshKebab 8 days ago
It's not conceptually simple. No other object creation API works by copying an existing thing and then modifying it. You don't create a new file by copying an existing one and then modifying it. You don't create a new window by copying an existing one and modifying it.

Attempting to justify clone/exec as a reasonable design is just Stockholm syndrome.
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kps 7 days ago
> No other object creation API works by copying an existing thing and then modifying it.

Clone-and-modify is pretty common in CAD.

> You don't create a new file by copying an existing one and then modifying it.

Clone-and-modify is almost universal in version control systems.

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IshKebab 7 days ago
> Clone-and-modify is almost universal in version control systems.

It's closer to copy-on-write. Also, it actually makes sense there because in 99.999% of cases a commit actually is a modified copy of its parent. That isn't true for process spawning.

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