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

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mghackerlady|14 minutes ago

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?

rayiner|about 1 hour ago

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?

ninkendo|30 minutes ago

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

The dot com boom in 1999 was a bubble, but the internet was still useful and important and obviously survived.

The bubble is due to the skyrocketing valuations and questionable financial future of the companies involved, not because AI isn’t useful.

anonzzzies|44 minutes ago

We are in a bubble and it's not overrated. Many people just have issues using it correctly it seems. Weird as after 30 years managing 1000s of programmers over that time, this feels the same, yet with many times more and often better output.

abc42|42 minutes ago

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

Simple: AI is not overrated at all. Might still be a bubble though, that's an entirely different consideration.

Something is still holding us back though. One would think that we'd have a dozen total rewrites of Linux at this point.

socratic_weeb|32 minutes ago

eww