• vivendi@programming.dev
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    5 hours ago

    That’s complete horseshit. There are lile 3 major implementations of Wayland and 2 exist because the other one wasn’t ready at the time. There are other hobby implementations, but they all work together. Just like how different network stacks can all talk TCP to each other and be fine. Nobody calls TCP fragmented because there are different network stacks…

    There are also smaller projects.

    Also, the model of a protocol allows Wayland to be deployed on truly exotic operating systems. As long as the top level is compliant, shit just works.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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      5 hours ago

      but they all work together

      Lol, no. Wlroots stuff doesn’t work on Sway and vice versa, then there’s a few extra limited-scope imlementations with the same problem and Weston is reference only.

      And TCP doens’t need to duplicate keyboard/mouse input and it builds on UDP to handle low-level stuff. SSH is a better example.