LWN's unreliable predictions for 2022

Posted Feb 19, 2022 1:24 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: LWN's unreliable predictions for 2022 by flussence
Parent article: LWN's unreliable predictions for 2022

> Even the core X11 protocol is insulated behind xcb nowadays because it's *painful* without it.

Buh what? This too is basically the reverse of reality as I understand it. Everyone not doing something very strange used libX11 to interface with the X protocol for decades; almost nobody sent raw protocol messages. XCB is an attempt to get *closer* to the protocol, not further from it.

LWN's unreliable predictions for 2022

Posted Feb 26, 2022 6:40 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I explained that one badly, that's on me. The point is that libxcb's both better for the developer and the computer than the old "reference" implementation (libXfoo), where everything was synchronous API calls. X11 hasn't changed but the main way of interfacing with it is now completely different.