Wayland starting to work

Posted Jan 30, 2026 20:04 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Wayland starting to work by anton
Parent article: Xfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor

> and eventually it became accepted that Verilog has a future. I expect either X11 or the compatibility layers (like Wayback) to live far longer than "most people" expect.

The reason Verilog didn't die is ultimately because the numerous commercial entities that had a huge investment in verilog-based designs continued to invest real money in keeping that ecosystem alive and viable.

Keeping the X11 ecosystem alive will require a similar sort of ongoing investment *from those that want to keep it alive*.

(Note this investment has to compensate for the fact that nearly all of the developers that had been involved in the X11 ecosystem -- volunteer _and_ commercial alike -- have long since moved on to other things)

(See also: retrocomputing fetishists, rust on esoteric cpu architechures, etc)