The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)
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中文导读
X 与 Wayland 核心开发者 Daniel Stone 在 linux.conf.au 2013 上的名场面演讲。他以内部开发者的第一视角，系统复盘了 X11 历经数十年技术债务堆积后走向不可维护的死局，以及为何唯有另起炉灶推倒重来做 Wayland。
为什么 HN 推它
HN 每次爆发 Wayland 与 X11 口水战时的权威终结帖，幽默辛辣且极具工程启发性，讲透了为何有些历史遗留系统“修不如换”。
「2013 年那场令人捧腹却又含金量拉满的神级技术演讲。」HN 网友原话：incredibly funny and educational talk[1] from 2013
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Daniel Stone, a longtime X and Wayland developer, explains at linux.conf.au 2013 why X11's design became untenable and what motivated Wayland. The talk walks through X's history and accumulated cruft.
HN treats it as the definitive, funny and educational answer to why X could not be fixed, and links it in almost every Wayland vs X argument.
HN 上的提及
The Wayland people really sound like they know what they are talking about, based on decades of experience.
Here's a good video explaining some of X's problems
He's actually a really charismatic speaker.
Cited as backing for criticism of X.
seen the talk[1]