Surely noone would like to develop something even if its greenfield if they don’t see it promising.
Believe me, they would have been more then happy to pop into existence a 100% backwards compatible change, but that is impossible.
in the comment session of that HW post there was a lot of people saying that they hate to create projects and prefer to maintaing code, if even the mainteiners don't want to work on it, just proves how complex it was
Half the programs you use? Are you OK with all of these programs having access to each other? Would using XWayland not solve the issue? The main issue I have with X programs in Wayland is that I use 4k and the scaling is off. But its still usable.
Because some developers love greenfield projects. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36642796
> And that barely usable part is pure bullshit again — how else would it be the default protocol for plenty distros already?
A default that broke half of the programs I use. Thank you.
To be fair, lots of progress in the past two years. It went from 90% broken to 50% broken..