Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/apple-development-platform.html

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contrast to what you say the Apple audio stack (CoreAudio) is far less
streamlined that it might appear on first sight. The different APIs that make
up the Apple audio stack are far more redundant than you might think. Also,
they are different in programming style, and you can list at least as many
seperate components for different areas of audio with different API/naming
styles as you just did for the Linux audio stack.

Listing two components of the Linux audio stack that are considered
obsolete these days, and listing one item twice doesn’t really help making your
post unassailable.

Having said that, yes, our Linux audio stack is still chaotic,
redundant, badly documented and incomplete. You are very welcome to help fixing
this. But just doing a bit PR and sticking a single name on the sum of it all doesn’t
even touch the real problems we have with the audio APIs on Linux.

Free software development is in its very essence distributed. The fact that
our APIs sometimes appear a bit higgledy-piggledy is probably just an
inevitable consequence of this.