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by jblow 2347 days ago
Toxic waste sites were ubiquitous too, but we put in the effort to clean them up.
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This applies to bash as much as to X11 ICCCM:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39...

In summary, ICCCM is a technological disaster: a toxic waste dump of broken protocols, backward compatibility nightmares, complex nonsolutions to obsolete nonproblems, a twisted mass of scabs and scar tissue intended to cover up the moral and intellectual depravity of the industry’s standard naked emperor.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. - Jamie Zawinski

X-Windows: …Even your dog won’t like it.

X-Windows: …The first fully modular software disaster.

I'm game. What's your plan?