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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by vidarh on Thursday December 25, 2025 @07:49AM (#46384105)
Yeah, no I have my own wm in Ruby that is fewer lines of code than a typical Wayland Hello World, and that does what I want. I have no reason to want to throw that away for something that doesn't offer me any features I care about, and removes features I do. Such as the ability to just restart my wm if I make a change to it without affecting my current session at all.

Unless you can show me a solution that lets me replace my tiling and floating wm in ca 1500 lines of Ruby, and will let me restart without restarting my session, what you're offering me is inferior to what I have with X

Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by gf000 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @12:03PM (#46385613)
It's called an extension. What's the point of mandating a (bad) IPC API?
Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by vidarh on Thursday December 25, 2025 @01:57PM (#46386322)
Th point is that with X I could start with less than 100 lines and switch to using my wm, and stepwise refine it while using it.

You might consider that a bad API, but to me any solution without it is massively inferior and not something I will ever consider.