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Harder than it sounds, though. You still have to be able to communicate with other processes to present the user with a usable UI, so the isolation is never rea
by KerrAvon 4y ago
Harder than it sounds, though. You still have to be able to communicate with other processes to present the user with a usable UI, so the isolation is never really complete. There are lots of variations on this theme and they all have to compromise in some way.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoTrue, but Apple still did it to allow Classic Mac apps to run on OS X when the initial version of OS X was released.
- eru 4y agoOh, it's definitely no walk in the park. But more realistic than rewriting all old programs in one go.
- samus 4y agoIt's perfectly possible to have that with something like the X window system. The irony is that this protocol gives applications way too many capabilities. But Wayland is a chance to fix that for good and finally have proper compartmentalisation in the GUI.