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XCB did not largely replace Xlib. In fact, some (all?) implementations of Xlib are built on top of XCB.
by aninteger 6mo ago
XCB did not largely replace Xlib. In fact, some (all?) implementations of Xlib are built on top of XCB.
- seba_dos1 6mo agoTurns out you want to build higher-level interfaces on top of lower-level interfaces, not the other way around.
- i80and 6mo agoMaybe the technical politics have changed, but I feel like I remember there was some push in the late 2000s to rewrite libraries that were using Xlib to instead use XCB. Regardless, that's sort of my point: having a lower level fiddly layer is a desirable quality, and Xlib being rebased on top of it isn't exactly a counterexample.