{"id":106452,"date":"2026-03-22T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=1214f6e9aa5c25e6a3b22cdc942b3ceb"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:06:29","slug":"i-hate-programming-wayland-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106452","title":{"rendered":"I hate: Programming Wayland applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p4m.dev\/posts\/29\/index.html\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: ~15 years into \"The Xorg developers have determined X11 is an unmaintainable mess of poorly-fitted extensions and anachronistic API designs, and have decided the successor will be... an API made entirely from an assemblage of poorly-fitted extensions, that will start to look anachronistic before it reaches feature parity.\"\n(I daily-drive a KDE Plasma on Wayland session for the last few years, most of it works, but that doesn't mean it was a good design.  The papercuts, especially around input plumbing, are obnoxious and obvious.)<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=47478298\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106452\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}