That's why people attempt abstraction

Posted Aug 15, 2011 4:04 UTC (Mon) by broonie (subscriber, #7078)
In reply to: That's why people attempt abstraction by JoeBuck
Parent article: Avoiding the OS abstraction trap

The problem you end up with is that you get a cross platform driver that doesn't work particularly well on any of the platforms; it ends up being non-idiomatic and often reimplementing the wheel.