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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by the_why_of_y on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:32PM (#24900269)
One of the innovations since the 1980s when X was designed are shared libraries, so you can have libweston and wlroots now https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots
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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by frank2 on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:38PM (#24900372)
X11 used shared libraries since its beginning in the 1980s.
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Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? by the_why_of_y on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:26PM (#24901648)
SunOS paper about shared libraries, 1987

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.37.9...

SunOS 4.0 lists "dynamic linking" as new feature, released 1988

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS

AT&T System V Release 3 got shared libraries in 1986

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V_Release_4#SVR3

While the first X11 release was in 1987, the fundamental architecture was designed already since 1984, and this architecture includes a heavyweight server that implements things that in most other window systems are done client-side.

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