As for tecnically inferior, the *ix approach seems to have made the right tradeoffs, via the hand of Darwin, rather than some brilliant engineering insight. - Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically / HN / 2

Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically

• It’s a half-arsed implementation of a filesystem
• a memory dump is not a file format
• reading/writing the Registry in Windows NT is poor
• Types are not well specified
• Interchange formats are not well specified
• The Registry arrangement is a mess
• The Registry is a filesystem (vs a Database)
• Security, ha ha, let’s pretend