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> I live in a cave and am not a system programmer -- what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it? Tech de
by prmoustache 11mo ago
> I live in a cave and am not a system programmer -- what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it?
Tech debt. The X11 dev have thrown the towel and have prefered working on something they deemed more maintainable.
- ferguess_k 11mo agoThanks. This alone could be enough validation. I worked only in smaller codebases but I get sometimes it is impossible to untangle a tech debt -- much easier to just ask for a new copy of the requirements and start over, which also has the benefit of triggering things such as "Oh we actually don't need A,B and C, don't bother with them".
- big-and-small 11mo agoMain problem isn't sheer amount of code. Problem is that X11 have to somewhat stick to protocol so apps written in 1995 keep working on top of it.