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> The most active Wayland developers are not only also Xorg developers but have been so for a very long time Amusingly, I often hear this argument from Wayland
by altfredd 7y ago
> The most active Wayland developers are not only also Xorg developers but have been so for a very long time
Amusingly, I often hear this argument from Wayland proponents. Do they realize, that those very same developers have failed at maintaining Xorg code base and fixing it's bugs in backward compatible way?
To run a project into the ground and wash one's hands of it... is not worthy of endorsement.
- danShumway 7y ago> To run a project into the ground and wash one's hands of it... is not worthy of endorsement. But to run a project into the ground and not wash one's hands of it is an even worse endorsement. You might not trust the Xorg devs to develop you a new window system, but at least you'd trust them to know if their own, existing code has fundamental problems.
- xorcist 7y agoIt's important to know that there were once many implementations of X11. Xorg is the only one that hasn't failed. Everything else is unmaintained now. This may be a matter of different perspective, but from my point of view the Xorg maintainers did a monumental work modularizing and cleaning up the codebase. They kept integrating modern extensions and have kept X11 relevant all this time. Try something pre-Xorg to compare.