> You can continue to keep using applications in X11-mode for as long as those applications maintain that code path. Notice that I never said applications. I'm

> You can continue to keep using applications in X11-mode for as long as those applications maintain that code path. Notice that I never said applications. I'm aware that xwayland is actually quite good these days; the problem is accessibility and automation tools that it can't support. > would you have expected Apple to support Carbon ad-infinitum? > Look at the backwards-compatibility and new-framework-adoption-rate woes Windows has to deal with because Win32 exists and devs are lazy / expensive. Yeah, devs are expensive, which is why backward compatibility is so important. Microsoft, for its many faults, seems to understand that breaking applications every few years and demanding that developers put in time in order to keep things working is poor form, leading to people making comments like > I’ll also give a shout-out to our friends in the Operating Systems business: Windows, Linux, NOT APPLE FUCK YOU APPLE, FreeBSD, and so on, for doing such a great job of backwards compatibility on their successful platforms. - https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre... In fact, the rest of that essay is a great commentary on exactly why this kind of thing is bad and why Apple should be derided exactly for this kind of thing.