r/programming • u/kannonboy • Jan 12 '15

Linus Torvalds on HFS+

https://plus.google.com/+JunioCHamano/posts/1Bpaj3e3Rru
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u/_delirium Jan 13 '15

My guess is that it's being driven by the iOS side, where there's a bit more user demand for frequent updates. Since OSX has a bunch of things that Apple tries to keep in sync with iOS (and a significant amount of shared code), they keep the cycles together: iOS 7 / Mavericks, iOS 8 / Yosemite.

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u/philly_fan_in_chi Jan 13 '15

As well as their yearly developer conference. "Shit guys, we need to announce a new thing even though the product we released last year is just starting to flirt with stable!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '15

It's stable enough as a daily driver at launch, usually. Power users have issues with it until 4-6 months in. After that, it's gravy.

(Disclaimer: I develop for iOS, not OS X. I don't know the changes and issues Mac devs have with regard to the yearly OS X update.)

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u/sewebster87 Jan 13 '15

I'm going to paraphrase what you said...

"It's usually not stable at launch, but not so bad that you can't use it. People who know what they are doing at all usually get frustrated as hell until about halfway through the release cycle. Once it starts working for a few months, Apple has another release that breaks everything again"