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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

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88 points clircle | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nananana9 ◴[20 Sep 25 06:43 UTC] No.45311026[source]▶
> paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task

This is such a crazy mentality to me, coming from game development, where you can just go to a random 22yo kid's desk, ask them "do you want to port this game to the Nintendo Switch?" and they'll go "hell yeah" and do it in a few months, despite never having programmed for the device before.

You can just learn to do new things. By all accounts the Wayland protocol is simpler than X11, and you've already done the majority of the work. It's just a matter of adding a new backend. People do that all the time when they port a program to the web, a game to a new platform, or when they add a new architecture to a compiler.

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1. roenxi ◴[20 Sep 25 07:45 UTC] No.45311335[source]▶
Is this you volunteering to do the port? I'm guessing you're not going to learn how to do this new thing. The real irony here is that they are actually implementing your suggestion - they're potentially going to hire some random 22yo who's response to porting XMonad to Wayland is "hell yeah!". Although realistically they'll probably get someone a bit more experienced.

They don't seem to be saying they can't do this or that it is some insurmountable technical challenge. They're saying that they aren't going to do it themselves and aren't giving reasons.