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Just 9 years to go before Wayland’s replacement protocol is revealed, going by the X11 timeline. Or, in the next year or two, going by the Xfree86/Xorg timelin
by wharvle 3y ago
Just 9 years to go before Wayland’s replacement protocol is revealed, going by the X11 timeline.
Or, in the next year or two, going by the Xfree86/Xorg timeline.
It’ll be interesting to see whether the (inevitable) Wayland or X11 compatibility layer is the more-heavily-used one in that future system.
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- MadnessASAP 3y agoA decade before people start looking for a replacement is pretty good numbers. Especially if you consider that's when the search for replacement starts. Xorg continued to see significant development for about a decade alongside Wayland. Of course W was only a couple years old before being replaced by X. So maybe we'll see Waylands replacement much sooner. I wonder if people were debating W vs X the way we debate X vs Wayland?
- bitwize 3y agoX was pretty much W, but async. Wayland is a fundamental rethink of the entire graphics stack -- much needed for modern systems.