Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Jul 2006 21:32 UTC
Haiku's Axel Dorfler has stated that Haiku's networking stack is more or less complete. "the basic networking infrastructure should be more or less complete now. Also, when booted, and an interface is up, the stack should also respond to ARP requests. However, that it is more or less complete doesn't necessarily mean it will work fine - when implementing the protocols, we'll definitely find some rough or even missing edges, I'm sure." In addition, a week ago, the latest Haiku newsletter was released.
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2005-07-06
"Haiku's appserver is far more better than X-Windows and API is _EASY_. X-Windows API is unusable and not worth learning for me."
Ok, time to run violently off topic.
X doesn't have an API, it has a protocol. The closest most people come to this is the XLib library, the "standard" library for writing X applications. XLib has a very nasty API that's true, but it's not intended that you should have to interact with it very closely. Normally, when writing an X app, you use a toolkit (GTK+ etc.) as was always intended.
Anyway, result is that the "X-Windows API" isn't unusable, you probably use it quite regularly, you just don't have to worry about how exactly you do it. There are attempts to improve low level access to the X protocol (xcb for example,) and while these should help toolkit writers to write good libraries, they won't make things different for those happy to use the toolkits, which is almost everyone else.
AppServer is different to X, as the toolkit APIs are all very entangled with the lower level stuff, so you don't have to think about which you are using. That's a slightly false way of thinking about it though, as under BeOS you don't generally use the interfaces that would compare to XLib, those are nicely wrapped up for you in pretty C++ objects.