X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp

Re:X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp by 10098 on Friday December 06, 2013 @06:46PM (#6864616)

Wait, you need an X server to run it? What's the point then?

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Re:X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp by _delirium on Friday December 06, 2013 @06:52PM (#6864635)

It looks like it just uses an existing X server as a way to create an OpenGL context, not as an X server per se. Perhaps it would be possible to port it to some non-X method of producing an OpenGL context, such as EGL.

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Re:X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp by pyb on Friday December 06, 2013 @07:45PM (#6864825)

Yes that's the idea

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Re:X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp by OGC on Friday December 06, 2013 @09:07PM (#6865091)

So its a really hard way to run an X server on top of an X server?

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Re:X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp by dmytrish on Saturday December 07, 2013 @09:05AM (#6866377)

Because this glosses over the really complex parts. Still, if they are written in Lisp, this would comprise a complete self-sufficient X server (how many lines of code this would take though?).

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