[cmollis]

here's what most cross-platform library vendors never get: it's actually easier, and ultimately faster, to learn each environment's native API, then learn one cross-platform API and all of the idiosyncrasies on each platform it supports. Inevitably, there will be some aspect of the native platform that doesn't work correctly within the x-platform sdk and then you have to hack around it.

[pjmlp]

The first time I got to learn that was when I had to maintain a server application across the commercial UNIXes of the 90's.

POSIX was not as portable as they advertised.