Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "This Wayland Issue Will Get You Banned" video.

@c0dev0id Exactly. This is my chief complaint of the software rewrite advocates. They trade known problems for unknown ones and end up having to solve old problems all over again. It's a never ending slog because people don't bother to learn history and instead just claim it's outdated and janky while not actually knowing what they're talking about. So 15 years of "development" time that could've been spent reading the old code, then fixing it, and no more arguments.
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@myownfriend23 So 2012 then, and thus 12 years. It doesn't take that long to think about a protocol unless you just got off the short bus, and it doesn't take that long to implement it either. All that was really necessary was for them to fix the supposed security holes and functionality bugs in X and the world would've been a better place, but instead they just complained about how big it was and impossible to fix without completely redesigning it and have now made the world a more bitter place. If they'd spent half of the time arguing over Wayland to read the X11 source code and the other half to fix it, the job would be done by now.
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@myownfriend23 And you're still wrong. The reference implementation is what the majority of people are using who are still using X11. And worse yet, they had a security framework ready to go. If the maintainers, who are the same people that decided to start from scratch with Wayland without having spent any time trying to understand X, if they had just decided to force everyone to use the security framework, then everyone could have adopted that and it would've been fixed at least 10 years ago, if not more. Stop trying to sound like you know what you're talking about and get back on the short bus.
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@myownfriend23 Okay, so you just got off the short bus and can't read. I'll say it again, the X11 source code. Read it, understand it, fix it. Shouldn't take 15 years for a full team to do that, but whatever.
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