Sunday, March 23, 2003

BeOS

I've been hearing for the last few years how BeOS has an amazingly responsive GUI because of the way it is written. You almost never wait for the GUI to respond like you do under Windows or OS X.

That seemed too good to be true; something was obviously missing from the picture. Finally, after reading this article on OS News I understood the BeOS thing: it's not fast, it simply has a largely asynchronous API. This provides a good GUI experience but is a pain in the ass to program.

At least with traditional programming languages. But say you used a language based on the join calculus like the Polyphonic C#... Hm...

   1:07 PM