• azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Eventually it’ll be easier to create a compatible drop-in replacement than maintain the decades old code, if it isn’t already

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      9 months ago

      Unlikely, unless you drop backwards compatibility for undefined behaviour. Unless you write a complete specification on it, you’ll end up either breaking old stuff, or slowly rebuilding the same problems.

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        9 months ago

        Wayland is not a drop-in replacement tho. It’s like if glibc developers declared it obsolete and presented a “replacement” that has a completely different API and has 1/100 of glibc functionality and a plugin interface. And then all the dozens of Linux distros have to write all the plugins from scratch to add back missing functionality and do it together in perfect cooperation so that they remain compatible with each other.