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Depends where you look.

The cloud OSes have long left classical UNIX behind, Kubernetes or managed languages on top of type 1 hypervisors are the name of the game, even if there is some POSIX based kernel somewhere on the stack.

On the mobile side, although Android and iOS have some POSIX support, it hardly matters for app development.

Even on macOS, which is a certified UNIX, if you want access to some of the modern networking APIs, they are only exposed at Objective-C level.

So while POSIX kind of has won, long term it has been yet another phase in the history of computing, thus looking forward to such alternatives.




All of these things are ultimately abstractions built on top of POSIX (aside from actual unikernels which can be used in the virtualization scenario)

It absolutely does free OS designers to remove the POSIX parts from in between, but no one really has yet


There is no POSIX on many type 1 hypervisors, specially stuff like Hyper-V.

Android and ChromeOS developers also don't have any access to any kind of POSIX abstractions or APIs.




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