Incredible dissection of how process bureaucracy can fossilize technical decisions. The u8path deprecation saga is a perfect exemple of what happens when you optimize for theoretica consistency instead of pragmatic utility. I've worked on systems where transcoding edge cases like this created maintenance nightmares, and the insight about vcpkg ripping out the entire filesystem lib rather than dealing with the encodng model really underscores how broken the abstraction became in practice.
Incredible dissection of how process bureaucracy can fossilize technical decisions. The u8path deprecation saga is a perfect exemple of what happens when you optimize for theoretica consistency instead of pragmatic utility. I've worked on systems where transcoding edge cases like this created maintenance nightmares, and the insight about vcpkg ripping out the entire filesystem lib rather than dealing with the encodng model really underscores how broken the abstraction became in practice.
whenever someone mentions filesystem I get the ick