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It is always your own software the one you want to rewrite, because "the second time you'll get it right".
by AshamedCaptain 5y ago
It is always your own software the one you want to rewrite, because "the second time you'll get it right".
- md8z 5y agoWell, I think Wayland is going to avoid the "second-system effect" as it was intentionally designed to be smaller and less grandiose than X. http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html
- destructionator 5y agoBut the reality is those features were added to the first thing for reasons. Which means there's user pressure to add them again... which means the second system effect is virtually impossible to avoid. See for yourself: https://wayland.app/protocols/ https://wayland.app/protocols/ And unlike the first system, it doesn't have the experience of use to refine it.