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by Asooka
34 days ago
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Wayland was started 18 years ago. When it was conceived, X11 was 20 years old. In 2 years, we should probably start talking about replacing Wayland with a modern display server... In all seriousness, it is another stark reminder why you never rewrite from the ground up. Especially when you're replacing a foundational technology like the display server. In the same time Microsoft reworked their display driver model twice without requiring a single change from application developers. The Linux world doesn't have that many application developers, we should not be asking them to continually chase newer and newer APIs. A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
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Oh no, not this again. The design of Wayland started 18 years ago, but the stabilization happened 14 years ago, and the _convincing_ across the ecosystem obviously happened way later than that.
I would put the year closer to 2016, when distros started to consider Wayland as an option.