Rewriting ancient code

Posted Feb 28, 2023 14:27 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Rewriting ancient code by jem
Parent article: The future of Thunderbird

I think that's why Wayland isn't X11.

X11 has fundamental design flaws in an insecure world, and having "designed" X12, they presumably decided they couldn't evolve X, so they took all that into account and started again.

Cheers,
Wol