Re: Gambas and Wayland

[Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> > There are some bad designs too in some of X11 protocols, but why not
> > just fixing them?
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> It's an old mistake:
>
>
> https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
>
> "Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic
> mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the
> code from scratch."



Fixing and rewriting are two very different things.


Jussi