Mmmmkay. That's a pretty broad statement, good luck with that attitude!
> I’ve tried appealing to reason and rationally debunking each lie that some Wayland detractor flavor-of-the-week is touting to tow the party line, but it didn’t work.
I guess he's referring to this post? https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/10/Wayland-misconceptions-de...
And to numerous comments on HN and elsewhere.
The 'wayland sucks' movement is sooo annoying, even to me and I'm just a happy wayland user and haven't spent any of my free time writing those thousands of lines of code.
Personally the community around wayland seems to have some toxicity in it. That is the only thing I really took from the original post.
"Wayland doesn't X!"
"Actually, it's on purpose or X that is not working on Wayland because [reason]."
Sure but that doesn't make it work.
Luckily, DeVault is an insanely prolific writer of actual code, so there's no need to evaluate his attitude. His code speaks for itself.
But you’re right, I’m the problem for responding to a fawning endorsement of the author with a very moderated opposing view. My bad. I’ll do better on the next account.
Commenters routinely underestimate the amount of flamebait in their posts by 10x or more—it always feels like the other people are doing worse. No one would objectively describe your posts in this thread as "very moderated".
He has worked on projects other than wayland.
Sourcehut is a notable example: A free github alternative that has great e-mail integration. One of the amazing features is that the UI uses no javascript (pure server side python) and is super fast.
I for one greatly appreciate a lot of DeVault's work. Do I think he has the softest way of expressing his opinions? No. Do I need him to in order to appreciate the technical merits of his work? No. I'm not looking for a life partner – I'm looking for excellent software.