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> 5. The Wayland list is damning as it reads like serious architectural errors were made for something that was meant to learn from X; and The Wayland section
by sho_hn 5y ago
> 5. The Wayland list is damning as it reads like serious architectural errors were made for something that was meant to learn from X; and
The Wayland section is also perhaps the most technically inaccurate of the post, for example in its comparisons to how competing systems are put together - more than once it lays the blame for not providing a certain kind of API at the feet of Wayland, when in the other systems named, the equivalent API is also not provided by the windowing/compositing system but at an orthogonal library level. In other cases the criticism reflects broad technological trends that are equally true for other systems from the same era (e.g. client-side rasterization), and for the same motivating reasons.
- md8z 5y agoI noticed that as well. The entire Wayland section is completely confusing and incomprehensible to me, and also filled with numerous false statements. It's just very poorly researched.
- itvision 5y ago> The Wayland section is also perhaps the most technically inaccurate of the post The author is open to valid criticism and updates the article whenever someone points inaccuracies or falsehoods. You and the guy replying to you, both say nothing technical or factual aside from "it is all wrong or/and inaccurate". That's very hard to act upon. > In other cases the criticism reflects broad technological trends that are equally true for other systems from the same era (e.g. client-side rasterization), and for the same motivating reasons. Yet other systems provide a level of integration and ease of use (APIs) which are leaps and bounds above what the Wayland protocol offers. That's the main gripe. Check this for more info: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/233 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/233
- sho_hn 5y agoI posted more technical comments elsewhere in the thread.