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by colanderman 4756 days ago
You might be right! The core issue of the ICCCM though is not that it's poorly designed in and of itself, but that it is forced to worked around certain specific deficiencies in the X11 protocol (and by "specific" I mean "easily fixed in the next protocol bump", as opposed to "warrant an entire redesign"). The ICCCM authors even suggest improvements to X11 to make for a more coherent system, but sadly it seems most of them have not yet (25 yrs on…) been implemented.

My overall thesis is that the overall design of X (client/server model, mechanism not policy, extensibility) is a sound one, and that the issues cited by Wayland proponents would be better addressed by an evolution of X than a whole-sale replacement.
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SimHacker 4751 days ago
Maybe they should just recognize the fact that the web has won and nobody cares about X any more, and implement a window system that runs in the web browser, and run the web browser in full screen direct access mode as the only top level application. I mean, now that we have HTML and WebGL and Canvas, who needs X11's neanderthal rendering model?

I'm kinda surprised that nobody's written an X server in JavaScript yet (not that it's what I'm proposing above, just that people love to do crazy useless things like that).

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SimHacker 4751 days ago
Jesus christ, I was wrong about that: https://github.com/tnkd/javascript-x-server

Is there a rule 34 about things that shouldn't be written in JavaScript being written in JavaScript?

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