Some people hate wayland.
Those people can contribute to Xorg server further development.
The thing that kicked off this thread was hope that vim will continue to support X11. No need for continued X development really.
On the contrary, because you will want to have those drivers when the time comes to reinstall the system with more modern hardware.
Without X Server support at the OS level for the new hardware, doesn't really matter if vim supports it on its source code.
But surely not every BSD user?
Not every BSD user, but the one you're responding to is most likely in that camp.
Those people can contribute to Xorg server further development.
The thing that kicked off this thread was hope that vim will continue to support X11. No need for continued X development really.
On the contrary, because you will want to have those drivers when the time comes to reinstall the system with more modern hardware.
Without X Server support at the OS level for the new hardware, doesn't really matter if vim supports it on its source code.
But surely not every BSD user?
Not every BSD user, but the one you're responding to is most likely in that camp.