How it should have been:
Xorg and Wayland competing with one another to be the best. People choosing whatever they like like.
What's really happening:
Intentionally not merging pull requests that improve xorg. Closing merge requests and issues en mass. Apps dropping support for xorg and forcing people to use wayland.
Instead of "let the best person win", it's "let me win".
@redstarfish It’s kind of the same thing as coreutils in rust.
Is it a drop-in replacement yet? No. Is it tested? No. Does it have all the same functionality? No.
So let’s force everyone to use it break thousands of scripts so we can get people to fix our pet project.
Because that’s what it is: a pet project.
> But rust is memory safe!
Who had in the last 35 years had problems with memory safety in cp and ls?
What is important is that GNU coreutils has been battle tested and has had logic errors fixed over decades.
> We have already fixed that problem.
But I wanted to do that one!!!
> You can fix a different problem.
FUCK YOU! I’m going to call my Discord friends and we’ll murder your perfectly functional software so everyone has to use MY solution. What do you say about that?
> Back to RedHat 5.6 and Fvwm95 it is then…
Hey… where did all the developers who actually make things go?
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@istvan @Suiseiseki @redstarfish FVWM still is actively developed :)
