Comment by ahartmetz
8 months ago
Why though? From what I've seen, the X protocol serialization is very simple, so it wouldn't solve any actually existing problem.
8 months ago
Why though? From what I've seen, the X protocol serialization is very simple, so it wouldn't solve any actually existing problem.
Why? Well, the existing protocol is 40+ years old, widely used and seriously battle hardened. The new one would be brand new and therefore infinitely better according to basic open source logic
This is a solid argument.
Have you seen this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software) They proposed to replace the transport layer with Protocol Buffers.
Mir is the definition of NIH syndrome, i.e. an example of what not to do.
Mir had an important thing going for it: Much faster progress towards replacing X11 on the desktop with all its features. It took several years after the failure of Mir for Wayland to become really practical.
That said, I'm not sure if Mir would have been a good thing in the long term, mostly because of Canonical's control over it.
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