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Dominant compositor implementations – the dominant wayland implementation is libwayland :) About the only serious alternative is the Rust one – the crate has a
by floatboth 5y ago
Dominant compositor implementations – the dominant wayland implementation is libwayland :) About the only serious alternative is the Rust one – the crate has a native mode. (but you still have to use the libwayland backend if you want to do GL because of how Mesa's EGL impl is tied to… yeah, lol, hard problems here :D)
But seriously, the "competition" between these compositors is awesome. This is like web standards again. Testing your client across different compositors reveals bugs (either in them, or in your client) and everything evolves together in standard ways. With the single Xorg server, everything got completely ossified, if anyone wanted to rewrite a full "production ready" X11 server they'd have to be bug-compatible with Xorg.