Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by jcranmer on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:57PM
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Windows and OS X are well-known for constantly deprecating APIs and replacing them with new ones. So clearly the best way to compete with them is to insist on dogmatic adherence to 30-40-year old APIs that are known to be horrible matches for how modern software stacks (including competitor OSes) actually work.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by p_l on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:41PM
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Windows supports core APIs for longer than Linux, or in fact, X11 exists.
It's actually possible (and was demonstrated) to upgrade from 1985 Windows 1.01 all the way up to 32bit Windows 10 and run windows 1.01 application without changes.
Arguably backward compatibility is the true reason how MS got to dominate OS market - you had good chance your software was just going to work on new OS version.