A critical analysis of Wayland's 17-year development as an X11 replacement
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Summary
This article is a critical post-mortem of Wayland as a display protocol replacement for X11 on Linux. It argues that after 17 years of development, Wayland has been a misallocation of resources that set the Linux desktop back by failing to deliver on key promises, creating fragmentation, and introducing fundamental problems rather than solving them. The author reflects on the engineering pitfalls of greenfield projects and the gap between promises and reality in open-source development.
Key quotes
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After 17 years of development, now is a good time to reflect on some of the larger promises that have been made around the development of Wayland as a replacement for the X11 display protocol.
With more migration from other operating systems, the pressure to fix fundamental problems has become more prominent.
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