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Choosing between portability and innovation

Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Mar 3, 2011 9:39 UTC (Thu) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964)
In reply to: Choosing between portability and innovation by aggelos
Parent article: Choosing between portability and innovation

Sounds like a bad API leaking internals

There seems to be a fashion against good abstractions and layering. The FOSS ecosystem has provided choice, because of modular components, allowing re-implementatin and improved features without breaking the application base.


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