Originally posted by starshipeleven
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Originally posted by starshipeleven
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Keep in mind that Linux (the kernel) has a policy to never (literally, never) remove or break userland APIs (unless they're too new and fatal flaw). Yes, many APIs are deprecated, and usually renamed to old_ prefix, like old_stat -- but they continue to exist, and are not removed.
That was my entire point: Microsoft are similar and very rarely remove. They deprecate APIs, but they don't remove them, just like Linux. Hence "Apple are not Microsoft" in that case, because Apple *do* remove.
Originally posted by starshipeleven
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In fact more like 99% of deprecated APIs have *not* been removed and will probably never be. Obviously I'm not stating 100% because the Windows API ecosystem is absolutely huge and I can't know all of it but I've yet to see one.
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