[yyyk]

X withering away was inevitable once you consider the 'economic' situation - very few people worked on it once the commercial Unix vendors went down. There was little practical enthusiasm for a common layer. Even before Wayland, its role was reduced more and more. Wayland is natural evolution of this where most of the work is offloaded to more resourced Desktop environments and the org mostly sets standards.

[slackfan]

X wasn't withering away, it was pointedly being poisoned.

[gf000]

Feel free to include any kind of source for that. Otherwise, it is just FUD.

[slackfan]

Sure, the developer culture of the people working on X has been "This is too difficult/obscure/shitty therefore it should die." There have been repeated posts about this to various forums, news.ycombinator.com included. Refusal to accept fixes, as well as a full pivot of the project to a targeted sundown instead of any attempt to attract developers to the project. Sources: The X project itself, hackernews discussions, both in articles and in comments. It's not my job to educate you.

[o11c]

And X11 is all the better now that fewer people are working on it. I don't need new features in my windowing system, I just need it to stay out of my way.