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It accepts X11 connections over TCP, renders framebuffers at native resolution, does MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE auth, and even ships experimental GLX so OpenGL clients work 'as reliably as they did in the 2000s'.
The line the room loved: does anyone else suspect X11 will outlive visionOS?
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Yserver is a from-scratch X11 server in Rust — not an Xorg fork. It implements 19 extensions (Composite, DRI3, GLX, RANDR) and deliberately drops multiple screens, non-TrueColor visuals, indirect GLX and the DDX driver ABI as 'legacy baggage'.
Two objections collide: practitioners who still need X11's network transparency and multi-monitor support that Wayland abandoned, and a chorus calling the project AI 'slop' that should disclose how much was machine-generated.
