> There is no specific reason for a program that uses the XDG dirs on other unices to not use them on macOS
Nobody stops Apple developers respecting a Freedesktop spec, but the point is many people that mostly know macOS probably didn't even know XDG was a thing. It's not like Apple encourages it in any of their command line utilities.
Nobody stops Apple developers respecting a Freedesktop spec, but the point is many people that mostly know macOS probably didn't even know XDG was a thing. It's not like Apple encourages it in any of their command line utilities.