[HN Gopher] A Neighbourly Solution to the 'X Is Deprecated? ' Co...
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A Neighbourly Solution to the 'X Is Deprecated? ' Conundrum
Author : zdw
Score : 24 points
Date : 2020-10-30 18:45 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.divergent-desktop.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.divergent-desktop.org)
| throwaway19937 wrote:
| There's really only one appropriate response to nebulous and
| meandering proposals like this.
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| It's a great idea, now send us a patch.
| acgkmopvvgvmgv wrote:
| Maybe I have reading comprehension problems but this article
| sounds so conflicting and presumptuous. Is it a sales pitch or
| not? If it is, even when it says it isn't, I would start by
| looking at Arcan's bus factor, and what refactoring and
| architectural changes were necessary along the years.
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| Having no expertise in this field I have no patience for people
| who write in this style but never got involved in the process.
| But if they did then I would be more interested in reading why
| their proposal was better and what can be done _now_ in the
| living code. Also IIUC protocols are exactly that, places to
| experiment and learn from mistakes until they get stable and
| anyone can propose them.
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| There are many developers who could write a good technical
| solution but it's the ones who can deal with the ugly politics
| that make a real difference. There's a phrase about that there
| but as always if you don't send code your opinion won't do any
| good.
| setpatchaddress wrote:
| Seems to be an oblique sales pitch for pushing bits of the
| author's window server architecture into Wayland.
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| Nothing wrong with that, but it didn't really tell me what
| problem it was trying to solve, nor directly pitch a solution for
| anything.
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