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by johnday 1894 days ago
> It's true that Wayland is just a protocol but that protocol is also defined significantly by its implementations.

A protocol should never, never, ever be defined in any way by its implementations. The entire purpose of a protocol is to abstract away the common interface such that it is entirely implementation-agnostic.

Indeed, you might say that a protocol prescribes exactly the intersection of all implementations.

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>a protocol prescribes exactly the intersection of all implementations.

That's a better way to put it and that's more what I was getting at.