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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by torginus on Thursday December 25, 2025 @07:07AM (#46383903)
Afaik Xorg is 'only' like ~500k lines of code, which is not huge by the standards of large porjects. In fact, one of the major counter arguments against Wayland, is that the compositor + a few core libs, like wlroots necessary to provide a similar set of functionalities, is already larger that the equivalent X11 code (which has a ton of unused cruft).
Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by gf000 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:06AM (#46384477)
> like wlroots necessary to provide a similar set of functionalities, is already larger that the equivalent X11 code

I absolutely don't buy this.

Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by TUSF on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:54PM (#46408258)
You shouldn't, cause it's wrong.

libwayland is 40k lines of code. wlroots is 60k loc.

And just to check, sway is about 49k loc.