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Comment by orowith2os

> We would like to compare it to Xorg in a world in which Xorg development kept moving forward, but counterfactuals are hard.

If Xorg development continued, we would still end up with Wayland, just under a slightly different name. You can only keep the X11 protocol, even with extensions, going for so long, and we've long since reached its expiration date.

parent orowith2os 3 years ago

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