Re: [9front] Thoughts on Wayland?

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

> In that respect, it's strictly a worse fit for Plan 9 than X, which at
> least is designed with networking in mind, I suspect?

Both Plan 9 and X are designed with networking in mind.

> Though, there is a tool for networking transparency on Linux with
> Wayland, so it's not impossible.

I bet they are multiplexing all graphical output as a lossy video stream.
Careful design from the ground up on the remote protocol level is
needed to solve the problem in a lossless, bandwidth-efficient, and
roundtrip-reducing way. And then all applications using the protocol
have to use it in the right way and not try to sabotage all the
efforts that got put into this mechanism: modern x11 programs suffer
from the same problem that wayland does, kde/gnome/google/mozilla et
all started to use x11 inefficiently, introducing bad
round-trip-sensitive implementations for unimportant cosmetic features
like animations.