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		sho_hn 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ancient X11 scaling technology This is nonsensical myth-making. Despite the clickbait title, the APIs called in those code samples are very basic and not some forgotten wizardry.

compiler-devel 8 months ago [–]

What part is nonsensical? Because Wayland is basically a fulfillment of jwz's CADT.

sho_hn 8 months ago | [–]

The part where we got Wayland because we lost a magic caste of rockstar engineers who could call XRRGetOutputInfo/XRRGetCrtcInfo.

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