2026-10-22 18:25 UTC
@navi@social.vlhl.dev nah I have written barebones X11 code before (when I learned how, libxcb didn't exist yet) and it's not nearly this fugly
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@navi@social.vlhl.dev 2026-10-22 18:31
@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol oh neat, libX11 was too limiting i assume? i don't consider it fugly, the wire protocol is quite clean imo (only fugly part to me is the lack of 64bit values, meaning interfaces have to send high and low as two 32bit ints) the interfaces are very lowlevel and i agree it's a pain by itself; but like vulkan, it makes it easy to build on top, even with vastly different paradigms of implementation which is why i like it despite the painful current situation of desktop impls