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This is extremely useful, and the page is beautifully written. Some people write absurd electron behemoths, and then there's this jewel of elegance.

Could this be compiled as an αpε? Such a thing would make many heads explode.

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I think the Xlib dependency would prevent compilation as an αpε. I put some effort into doing X11 from scratch (without Xlib or Xcb) to make this possible. Or at least, my aim was to be able to build with musl libc and generate a single executable that would run on many different Linuxes.

https://github.com/abainbridge/deadfrog-lib/blob/master/src/.... It is janky though.

One advantage of speaking X directly for small projects is that one can allocate fixed ids.

Super interesting!

> It is janky though

So what? It can be improved :)

Would you like to try to make an APE out of it? It would then be not just different Linuxes, but also MacOS and Windows, a bit like https://x410.dev/ or the free software vcxserv https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/

We have discord. You should join us!

FWIW I'm currently working on a DNS server with nice extra features like Multicast for mDNS/Bonjour: it could be used to publish the X server DISPLAY and make it accessible via service-discovery

> We have discord. You should join us!

Who is "you", here?

People who try to hack stuff with APE - here abainbridge but hopefully, you too: the more the merrier :)

Alpha Rho Epsilon? Alpha Pee Epsilon? Google isn't helping me here...

I think they're referring to this:

https://justine.lol/ape.html

One of many HN discussions about the topic here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960

Thank you! When I encounter an unknown term on HN, I try to find out for myself what it is before bugging everyone, but it doesn't always work.

Yup! Besides being hard to search, others have commented that the name might be bad for accessibility:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257503

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