The Linux kernel is also a monolith yet has worked forever without a rewrite.
I think there is a reasonably agreed on set of things that can be removed from X, like server-side drawing primitives, and GLX
The Linux kernel is also a monolith yet has worked forever without a rewrite.
I think there is a reasonably agreed on set of things that can be removed from X, like server-side drawing primitives, and GLX
The Linux kernel was not born obsolete on arrival like the X Window System was. At least, not fully obsolete.
It will be obsolete someday, anyways.
“Obsolete” means that a replacement exists which is as good as, or better than, the thing it aims to replace, in every significant way.
X11 is far from obsolete.
In what way was X11 obsolete in 1987?