[kaba0]

What’s the difference between a display server managing frames from applications for display, and compositors.. managing frames from applications for display but possibly with fire and wobbling? That’s like a bad place to draw a line.

There is no problem with monoliths in itself, if you needlessly introduce IPC at boundaries that don’t need it, you make your life just harder (also, tell that to those who make everything into a microservice). Also, people can use libraries to create better, different implementations, e.g. see wlroots - isn’t that the spirit of open-source instead of a single de facto monolith?

The important thing is that the public API is well-defined.

Also, X has problems and needs replacing because its fundamental architecture got outdated in the last 30 years.