[exikyut]

For what it's worth I happened to talk to the author a while back and we incidentally had a perfectly functional and pleasant conversation, he explained Arcan had been used in a variety of different contexts including machine-vision image recognition. I think this is more of a fundamental focal-point issue: this person can see something in what they're building that would only be appreciated by not just fellow engineers, but those specialized in the niche subfield of graphics that Arcan occupies. But that's the problem: I can't figure out what that niche is, and it would seem I'm not the only one. It feels extremely interesting, abstractly speaking, but that raw interestingness doesn't Do The Thing and resolve or "snap" to a relatable reference point. Which is really sad; without that extra "oh I get it!" this project is sadly going to have a hard time self-advertising and passively attracting interest. Even *cough* Mir (a Wayland alternative that's fallen into obscurity) has a tad more understandability going for it.

The upshot of this, though, is that if this ever gets to a point where it is relatable and can be appreciated at knee-jerk face value, it will be somewhere new and unfamiliar, and has the chance to have a noteworthy influence on how the Linux graphics status quo is reasoned about.