alt Hacker NewsI am loving the shift from 'X11 is too big and messy to ever reimplement' to 'there are multiple wildly different X servers being built from scratch'.
Also, has anyone run it successfully? I got as far as building and running with --display and then running `DISPLAY=:7 dwm` and `DISPLAY=:7 alacritty`, but I can't seem to focus the window to actually type. Given that the author posted a picture of the thing actually running a live environment and claims to actually be using it, I'm pretty sure this is a me problem but I haven't been able to figure out where it is. Mouse works, too.
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> 'there are multiple wildly different X servers being built from scratch'
by claude code. So this was only possible since no human had to bear looking at X original source code.
Try running `tile` as a wm. I imagine it's not fully compliant to support dwm.
Yeah, I have a mostly-functioning X11 server in Ruby, myself (not anywhere public yet).
Isene and I have relatively similar philosophies on this, except I have Claude burning tokens on optimizing and fixing my Ruby compiler now because I still want things in a high-level language, and my entire stack is Ruby instead of asm. But I love what he's doing - I just don't love x86 asm...
Turns out a functioning X server is a relatively simple piece of software. It's mostly just tedious. And most of the bulk is protocol handling that Claude can handle really trivially.