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The Gen Z web hacker will also tell yiunthatbthis isn't hownthings are done anymore and use a wire protocol consisting of HTTP, HTML, CSS and JS to make a bloated X server substitute called web browser do pretty much the same things.

I exaggerated, but only a little bit. Even the widget library zoo has somehow found an equivalent on the web.




It's like I say, Wayland is the replacement for X, but browsers and Electron are the replacement for NeWS.




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