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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GtkAda on macOS Big Sur
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 2021-08-23 18:59, Simon Wright wrote:
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> 
>>> And finally, I understand, there exist posh people, but why anybody
>>> would ever use MacOS!? with a telling nickname surreal or
>>> slur... (:-))
>> Dr Posh here.

>> I find my Mac extremely comfortable and pleasant to use. I will admit
>> to it being a little ... different ... in a very few, minor,
>> unimportant software aspects.
>
> Well, not so unimportant. It is BSD and that is a really bad omen. I
> had immense networking problems with FreeNAS daily crashes, abysmal 
> performance. FreeNAS is also BSD. Then Ubuntu rolled out ZFS
> support. I migrated my NAS to Ubuntu and since then had no problems
> whatsoever. Network access is many times faster and the system runs
> months without reboot.

I don't suppose one would base a NAS on a macbook pro!

I was actually intending to admit that some aspects of software
development on macOS are less than convenient; largely because of it
being Yet Another Application Interface, rolling up as a less popular
relation of the Unixes, Windows etc of the world and faced with 10
layers deep #ifdefs, autoconf, etc horror. Stick to Ada and the command
line, all much easier!