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> I suppose it could be that their experience taught them to build something minimal and then extend things later Without the "extend things later" part. Wayla
by jorvi 2y ago
> I suppose it could be that their experience taught them to build something minimal and then extend things later
Without the "extend things later" part. Wayland is/was severely underspecced because the devs had a pretty big trauma from the way X11 was developed. The idea was that by keeping it very minimal they could punt everything off to the layers above Wayland, where iteration is quicker. The higher layers would also be less foundational, meaning that development there wouldn't be stuck in committee quagmire for years.
- orbital-decay 2y agoColor management in particular is very bad to have as an afterthought. You need to build everything around it conceptually, and make every part of the pipeline color-aware, propagating the metadata end-to-end and optimizing it to exclude unnecessary transformations. Microsoft recognized the problem in Vista and still struggles with it in modern Windows versions.