alt Hacker NewsWhenever people complain about Wayland being hard to program in, I think about how Xlib was largely replaced by XCB, and OpenGL is increasingly marginalized in comparison to Vulkan.
Not to draw any specific analogy, but sometimes a fussy low-level interface is just important to have.
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aninteger • today at 5:45 PM
XCB did not largely replace Xlib. In fact, some (all?) implementations of Xlib are built on top of XCB.
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> and OpenGL is increasingly marginalized in comparison to Vulkan
Vulkan's "API design deficits" (to put it mildly) have been recognized by Khronos though, and turning that mess around and making the API a "joy to use" is one of Khronos' main priorities at the moment (kudos to them for doing that).
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Joy-To-Use-2025