9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
11:31 a.m.
On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Well, it's a really nice language for the type of person who likes
Forth. I am one of those people, but I've found it to be somewhat
less than widespread. :-)
Wayland is also designed to be considerably lower-level than X11,
primarily to improve efficiency. It's really more a compositor
than a true windowing system, if I understand it correctly. It
does allow for someone to write an X11 backend to perform all the
higher-level functions that the X server does. In that sense, it's
a lot more "unixy" than X, because it does one thing well and lets
other things provide higher-level functionality.
- Dave
but probably
not
interested in programming" because of the additional PostScript layer
on top.
You didn't need to do anything with PostScript if you didn't want to,
but it's actually a really nice language. I remember
reading about a new "UNIXy" window system project that
seemed to leverage many of the points discussed above, but the
authors had completely ignored network transparency. That's the sort
of thing that seems needless fluff until you start to use it, then
the network features of X become very convenient. I can't remember
the name right now, however. Seems that useless stylistic effects
were amply provided for in it.
Are you talking about the new one currently being developed
(primarily) in the Linux world? I've forgotten its name. I've read a
few things about it; it seems nice, but is not network-enabled. I'd
guess they're going to write some sort of X11 module for it to preserve
some degree of interoperability with the rest of the world.