(20-04-2021, 07:25 AM)phillbush Wrote: For us who are X11 hackers, what do you think of Wayland after reading it?

I quite like the concept of Wayland as a protocol definition, with the tools to automatically generate wrapper.
However, it also feels like a lot needs to be implemented by compositors and clients, plus there are ambiguous points for what the standard protocol doesn't define (which is quite a lot to be honest). There's a lot of things it gets right though, like the definition of standard singleton objects globally available that have predefined roles, asynchronicity, scaling, user input handling, direct rendering and efficiency, security, etc..
I'll be looking forward to trying it more and seeing it slowly evolve and progress to be more mature, especially new cross-compositors standards. There's a lot of good potential there.

(20-04-2021, 07:25 AM)phillbush Wrote: Let's also vote for the next book.

I'd vote for The Art of UNIX Programming, I've read it a really long time ago and I feel like I would need to revisit it.
Second place would go for The Design of the UNIX Operating System.