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Comment by sho_hn

> "most of the reasons given in 2011 were patched in to X11 later"

This definitely doesn't match my memory, and I was there :) Most of the good reasons remain unavailable in X11 to this day.

There definitely were some attempts to advance X11 that post-date Wayland, most notably the proposals by Keith Packard, but they never got much traction.

parent sho_hn 10 months ago

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