Comment Who cares.. (Score 1) 189
Why so many layers of abstraction? Because code bloat (which these layer may cause) is by far preferable to conceptual bloat (which these layers remove). Why use perl, when you can use C to do your own regular expressions? Why use C, when you can code in Assembly? Because hardware (processor speed) is cheap, while software (conceptual creation) is expensive.
Who cares about windowing speed (for example)? If your X-server is responsive, you're not going to notice further speed improvements. But without top-notch libraries to speed development, you'll notice that the windowing system isn't evolving very quickly (cough - Windows).
Sure, Linux has its problems. But creating a variety of conceptual frameworks is not one of them.
Who cares about windowing speed (for example)? If your X-server is responsive, you're not going to notice further speed improvements. But without top-notch libraries to speed development, you'll notice that the windowing system isn't evolving very quickly (cough - Windows).
Sure, Linux has its problems. But creating a variety of conceptual frameworks is not one of them.
