I'm rather concerned about the direction OS4 development is going in regards to the general design of the system. I worry that the new SObjs directory will only further encourage lazy programming tactics and more quick 'n dirty Unix ports. In fact, the whole system is becoming very Unix-y. Loads of things are getting statically linked and will never benefit from improvements to the underlying lib. Shared objects might change that, but it seems like they'll only further discourage programmers from properly porting things as a .library.
It seems like half the OS4 software I use is actually just an IconX script that increases the stack to 1000000 and runs a shell-based program. Where are the Amiga features? Where are the tooltypes, the Workbench usage, the pulldown menus, the AppIcons?
The time for quick and dirty ports has passed. It's time for some more mature software. Please?
