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Vibe Coded X11 Server Written in Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support

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rayinertoday at 3:56 PM

Writing a new X server from scratch would have been an enormous undertaking two decades ago. (Keith Packard did Kdrive but he’s literally the foremost expert on X11.) Part of what motivated Wayland was the difficulty of maintaining the X server.

How can we reconcile AI coding a functional X server with the assertions that AI is overrated and we’re in a bubble?

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mghackerladytoday at 4:43 PM

I don't understand the desire for an X11 rewrite. X.org is absolutely terrible, I understand starting from scratch, but wouldn't it make far more sense to make a backwards compatible X12?

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socratic_weebtoday at 4:25 PM

eww