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Also seen in GitHub in the wild at times. Always brings interesting discussions...
https://github.com/pdoc3/pdoc/issues/87
I've learnt a lot about cultures through those PRs
In this case, IOKit is an essential framework of macOS. You can't solve this by using a specific version of the library (or saying that your executable requires a specific version of the library). Apple's backwards compatibility is so bad, you require two versions of your program, one for pre-macOS 13, and one for post macOS 13, just because Apple are feckless
By comparison, Windows still has source-compatibility with their Win16 APIs https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Alearn.microsoft.com+%22comp... so if you have an application from 1995, it will probably still compile. Microsoft wouldn't deprecate OS functions lightly, and they certainly wouldn't deprecate them simply so they could rename them. The Linuxes and BSDs similarly maintain backwards compatibility far better than Apple, even for functions they know to be irredeemably insecure like gets()