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0 pointsxtracto3mo ago0 comments

I also use MacOS, but have used Linux since 1997 (way too many distros), so i hold it close to my heart.

For me the Wayland story is a great example of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

They started saying "let's rewrite from scratch, X is too complicated "; 17 years later, they have realized the reasons for all the complexity that was written during 25 years (1984 by MIT).

I guess in around 8 years we will have 2 implementations of X.

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drob5183mo ago

Indeed. Clean sheets of paper don’t stay clean very long in the real world. That said, in the manner of “plan to throw one away,” we can learn from our mistakes and do better the next time around. Though perhaps X10 was the one that got thrown away before X11.

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