Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by vidarh on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @08:13PM (#46381184)

Yeah, no, the X11 devs made pretty much all the wrong tradeoffs for me.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by nixosbestos on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @08:18PM (#46381218)

K bro. K.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by bigyabai on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @09:12PM (#46381459)

I wonder why Valve disagrees.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @11:26PM (#46382063)

Valve ships a Wayland compositor that just runs XWayland for apps and doesn't even expose the Wayland socket by default. I'm really not sure how we're supposed to count that.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by mikkupikku on Thursday December 25, 2025 @03:12AM (#46382955)

Valve being eminently pragmatic, as usual.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by vidarh on Thursday December 25, 2025 @08:01AM (#46384160)

Presumably Valve cares about different things than me.

I wonder why you think what Valve does has any relevance to my experience or priorities.

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