> It may even age gracefully, as the author wants it to, provided that Xlib stays around. Or maybe it could eventually develop a thin abstraction layer to allow

> It may even age gracefully, as the author wants it to, provided that Xlib stays around. Or maybe it could eventually develop a thin abstraction layer to allow pluggable rectangle-drawing and text-rendering APIs, and start supporting Wayland, too. For application software (which appears to be what the author cares about), xwayland (and the other one whose name escapes me at the moment[0]) should be a trivial way to support wayland perfectly well without actually having to expend any effort. [0] EDIT: Found it; https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite ... which actually apparently is xwayland, just without needing compositor support. Not quite what I thought I remembered, still super cool and useful.