Few years back when I was working with Wayland on a particular automotive project I came up with an explanation we could use with those outside the project. Wa

Few years back when I was working with Wayland on a particular automotive project I came up with an explanation we could use with those outside the project. Wayland is a protocol, which isn't really instructive. But the reference implementation, libwayland, is easier to comprehend. You can think of libwayland as a library for writing window managers directly on the framebuffer. Sure - that's a lie, but it's a helpful lie.