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turkeybased··on Write a Wayland Compositor [video]
> It's become pretty clear that their abstractions aren't correct. If I have to link against a gigantic C library just to get window decorations, we have a deeper problem.

Is there a write-up of the critique of this issue?

I read the Waycooler blog posts but they didn't go into details.

turkeybased··on Write a Wayland Compositor [video]
On a whole, the momentum has shifted: developers have shifted to Wayland.

I've switched to Wayland. On GNOME I haven't noticed any benefits, nor any costs. It has been a no-op.

turkeybased··on Write a Wayland Compositor [video]
> This just shows how much further ahead X11 is on a conceptual level and how bad the Wayland design philosophy really is.

I agree that the isolated failure mechanism in this case is a strength of X11, but it's too far to extrapolate that to the designs as a whole.