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It's an old story. A conservative rewrite, that amends those things experience has shown were mistakes but were always retained for compatibility, is rare, sin
by edflsafoiewq 6y ago
It's an old story.
A conservative rewrite, that amends those things experience has shown were mistakes but were always retained for compatibility, is rare, since the impulse to rewrite is revolutionary in nature. A rewrite is treated as an opportunity to remake the world in a new image (with a new set of mistakes to uncover).
- turminal 6y agoThe problem here is that a lot of stuff X does relies on horribly unsafe (mis)features of X. And of course wayland had to break compatibility with those things.
- michaelmrose 6y agoIf the user wants to do X which involves increased danger to the user giving users a way to tell the system that app X has the privilege of doing X but not allowing all applications to do X is potentially viable but telling users you don't need to do X anymore is a much harder sale. It needn't be a prompt users will quickly be prompted to click yes to it could easily be an option in settings or at communicated at install time.
- Qwertious 6y agoAIUI rewriting X wouldn't be much use anyway, because the problem is mostly in the protocol not the actual codebase implementing the protocol.