I can probably start posting political shit with my software now. I don’t have to care, I’ve almost made it.
Next OS release will probably ship with a windowing system but it won’t work yet. Some teasers:
- It’s not Wayland
- It’s not X11
- It’s not something new
- It may end up as a full fork with new features
There’s still a lot of work I’ve got to do to get it working, and I don’t know how long that’ll take maybe that’ll be a forever thing, but a major port is in progress! I’m looking at the code right now… The refactoring has begun, better announcements will be made when it uhhh works (or at least when it compiles for the system).
Implications For Networking
Porting a GUI rather than implementing my own means that I’ll need to use the network functions (which means I’ll need to implement my own network functions).
So this happens to be convenient for testing the network functions, and implies that local implementations of those functions will be the first step towards bringing up proper networking.
Implications For My Business
This move is part of a shift away from developer tools, towards protocols & standards relevant to consumers. But the initial graphical versions will still be developer-centric.
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