Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by uecker on Thursday December 25, 2025 @02:35PM (#46386568)

I agree. My point was only that this hole can easily be patched in X as well. So the argument was essentially "we do not bother to patch it with X, so we must rewrite X".

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by eptcyka on Thursday December 25, 2025 @03:19PM (#46386790)

It was my understanding that changing the original codebase to fix it would’ve been involved enough as to warrant a rewrite.

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Re:Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig by uecker on Friday December 26, 2025 @04:54AM (#46390724)

I think this is nonsense.

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