The corporations making proprietary software are not the only ones who have that attitude. I've resolved to make all my free software Linux-exclusive so that I can use Linux to the fullest. The Linux kernel is packed full of exclusive non-portable features that very few people take advantage of because they're obsessed with portability, POSIX compliance or whatever. I think that's a waste.
Portable software is usually sucky lowest common denominator software. We should not limit ourselves to whatever glibc offers.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network/nwendpoint...
Which honestly sounds like a good reason to make sure you do do it yourself.
Because not sure if you know this but the entire software industry is built on high level libraries on top of largely portable code. For example this Swift library wraps c-ares a portable API.
One can make a good technical argument based on the merit of the portable API without immediately resorting to the EEE argument.
