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Wayland might be taking over from X11 on a widely used Linux desktop as early as 6 months from now (Fedora 23):

https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2015/01/19/gnome-wayland-por...

Obviously X11 will not just disappear, but is targeting Servo at X11 at this early stage in it's development like writing a Python library targeting Python 2?

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Well, when I wrote this stuff for the first time a couple of years ago, NVIDIA's official position was "we have no plans to support Wayland". Even now I suspect X will be around for years.

I will be the first to cheer X's demise, as we've had so many problems with multithreading and X, but we have no choice right now.

Here's an overview from last year showing nvidia's wayland support under way:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=mtgxmde

X11 won't be going away any time soon.

Also, the EGL backend should work just fine in Wayland.

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