On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:46:00 -0300
"George N. White III" <gnwiii(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One of the motivations for Wayland was that the X.Org was becoming
unmaintainable and suffered from design choices that are no longer
relevant.
What this means is that there were 30+ years of corner cases handled in
the code. Those won't be handled in Wayland for a long time, if ever.
When Wayland has its own stack of such corner cases, it will then be
bloated and unmaintainable, and the cycle will start again with a new
piece of software.
If X runs on a single user system with no internet facing services,
security exploits are probably not a breaker. It will be the change in
the abis and apis as the underlying system evolves that will break it.