> Sorry to say, but "does this feature make application developers happy" trumps "muh unix" when considering whether to add something to the kernel.
Which application developers? A hell of a lot of developers are really really happy with "muh unix". Why should a bunch of hipsters with half baked ideas get to rob those developers of that happiness because pushing through half baked ideas makes them happy?
It seems to me that more and more of this comes up as people are moving onto Linux for "cloud services", bringing with them mental models honed on Windows (and to some degree, OSX).
Which application developers? A hell of a lot of developers are really really happy with "muh unix". Why should a bunch of hipsters with half baked ideas get to rob those developers of that happiness because pushing through half baked ideas makes them happy?