If 2020 couldn’t get more peculiar, today the SDL2 project mainlined support for the OS/2 operating system.
While OS/2 is no longer maintained by IBM and was never really a gaming platform for where SDL2 is most commonly used, this software library that serves as an abstraction layer for multimedia/gaming hardware components and software platforms has merged the OS/2 port.
Neat.
Really?
It does seem rather pointless, doesn’t it?
This does seem to be the kind of feature which a pragmatic and sensible upstream would reject. It has almost zero value and increases the maintenance burden. The cost:benefit just doesn’t work out any way you look at it.
As much as we might look back upon OS/2 with nostalgia, it’s been dead for a long, long time at this point.
That is not dead which is in use and maintained. With strange aeons even nostalgia may die.
Cool! I just wish the pricing of OS/2 new incarnations goes down for home users