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The talk was interesting but it also shows how the speaker is a little deluded that everything turns around technical quality of code and developers. X is used
by posix_me_less 6y ago
The talk was interesting but it also shows how the speaker is a little deluded that everything turns around technical quality of code and developers. X is used and preferred by many users and application authors because it is the standard and it works.
> so what is the 1 thing X does, and what is it doing well?
It provides functional and well-established(accepted standard) graphics server technology/libraries for any application that uses graphics.
I don't care if it takes 10 liters of blood to compile one version of X or whatever. I'm a user. All I care is that my desktop works as robustly as did it yesterday or 5 years ago. If that's not happening, I'm not interested in macros, classes, variables, declarations, structs, or any other geeky CS technobabble. That's irrelevant. And a product that advertises itself as being created to be convenient for the people developing it is a paradox. Don't develop it, then. Makes things even easier.
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