I completely get why this is really exciting for legacy applications, but I’m genuinely curious: is OS/2 still a good option for new development in any particular niche? From what I recall, SOM was very powerful for 1996, but I don’t remember it being amazing compared to things available now in any of power, performance, or ease-of-use. (E.g., if you have control over the ecosystem–which you’d have to have to use SOM in 2015 anyway–then you could easily use Qt components or something for similar binary extensibility with a more modern toolchain.)
Not really - at this point, the community consists of banks too cheap to upgrade their ATM systems, and people who still can’t forgive Microsoft after the 90s and refuse to let go. The latter is somewhat delusional that OS/2 is still viable today and can make a comeback.
That’s disappointing. If they really want to live in the 90s, I wish they would instead put their effort into something like Haiku, which is a much more unique environment to work in. OS/2 largely feels like a weird parallel dimension of Windows NT, with an almost identical API much of the time (ignoring the SOM/COM and ActiveX/OpenDoc differences that cropped up near the end).
I completely get why this is really exciting for legacy applications, but I’m genuinely curious: is OS/2 still a good option for new development in any particular niche? From what I recall, SOM was very powerful for 1996, but I don’t remember it being amazing compared to things available now in any of power, performance, or ease-of-use. (E.g., if you have control over the ecosystem–which you’d have to have to use SOM in 2015 anyway–then you could easily use Qt components or something for similar binary extensibility with a more modern toolchain.)
Not really - at this point, the community consists of banks too cheap to upgrade their ATM systems, and people who still can’t forgive Microsoft after the 90s and refuse to let go. The latter is somewhat delusional that OS/2 is still viable today and can make a comeback.
That’s disappointing. If they really want to live in the 90s, I wish they would instead put their effort into something like Haiku, which is a much more unique environment to work in. OS/2 largely feels like a weird parallel dimension of Windows NT, with an almost identical API much of the time (ignoring the SOM/COM and ActiveX/OpenDoc differences that cropped up near the end).
change title to “OS/2: Blue Lion to be the next distro of the 28-year-old OS (2015)”
See also: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/os2-resurrected-blue-lion-becomes-arcaos-details-emerge-for-upcoming-release/ (2016)