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I think this is important to highlight:
Wayland compatibility is part of the long-term plan. The developers say Phoenix might eventually support Wayland clients directly or use bridging tools to run Wayland-only apps in an X11 environment. Running Phoenix nested under Wayland, as an alternative to Xwayland, is also being considered.
In 2038, there will be a 32-bit computer with this, sysvinit etc. dying a well-deserved time death.
32 bit computers can handle 64 bit timestamps, it's just a matter of defining time_t to be 32 or 64 bits at compile time. The compiler will deal with all the mess of splitting the 64 bit value up to calculate on the smaller registers in 32 bit architectures, just like any other variable defined as int_64.
Linux kernels have had support for 64 bit time on 32 bit systems since version 5.something, so generally speaking there'll still be retro 32 bit hardware running past 2038 just fine.
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I'm very well aware. But you're clearly not aware of the fact that this X server simply wouldn't be running on an old enough kernel for the 2038 problem to be relevant.
efforts to extend Xorg’s life or replace it with similar alternatives continue.
This is 100% true, but the efforts are negligble and not even worth consideration.
^ is an exponentiation operator in C and who got kicked off Xorg for being a moron who did functionally nothing of any importance while carelessly breaking things like the ABI. Enormous quantity but zero quality to speak of. It will go nowhere and only has any crumb of relevance because of the maintainer's virtue signaling.As GNOME and KDE drop X11 and DEs like Cinnamon adopt Wayland, more and more actively maintained applications will stop giving a shit about X11. Even if they don't explicitly not support it, none of the developers will be using it, and most of the userbase won't either; thus, applications' support for X11 will just rot away if it isn't outright deprecated. Obviously X11 will always have a base of legacy applications, but you're going to be seriously hard-pressed even two years from now to find someone who would use X11 over Wayland – except for specific and severely outdated hardware, conspiracy nutjobs, and the rare case where XWayland doesn't properly support a legacy application.
Whenever I see a new project trying to modernize Xorg, my first question is whether it's actually about the code or just another protest/spite project. We’ve already seen how XLibre is less about display servers and more about a weird crossover of technical incompetence and fringe politics (championed by people like Lunduke). Is Phoenix actually a serious technical effort, or is it just the latest attempt to build a sanctuary for people who were kicked out of the Wayland and Xorg dev circles?
But why the name? Even Firefox had switch from Phoenix.
The plot thickens...
Another X Server in Pheonix in Zig? I'll keep an eye out for this one.