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throwabayhay
5 months ago
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Please Don't Promote Wayland
They mention macOS as "
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platform with consistent APIs and behavior". But macOS (or NeXTStep, as it started out as), an actual UNIX system (certified!), chose not to use X11 to achieve that, but to entirely roll their own.
wmf
5 months ago
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The point is that Quartz Compositor is mandatory on macOS. There aren't different incompatible APIs.
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