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minus-squarewizzim@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 day agoEven if I am not a Mac user, I have a lot of respect for those devs: trying to be compatible with a closed-source moving target is insanely difficult.
minus-squareCameronDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·22 hours agoNot to diminish the difficulty, but the macos kernel is open source, so at least they have a reference there: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu (I don’t know how much value that has in practice, but I assume they can at least see how it interfaces with the hardware)
Even if I am not a Mac user, I have a lot of respect for those devs: trying to be compatible with a closed-source moving target is insanely difficult.
Not to diminish the difficulty, but the macos kernel is open source, so at least they have a reference there:
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
(I don’t know how much value that has in practice, but I assume they can at least see how it interfaces with the hardware)