Show HN: Xlibe – A serverless Xlib (X11) compatibility layer for Haiku
I hate to be the one who has to say this, but this is a bad idea. If this is being done for practical reasons then don&#x27;t waste your time with this. It might work for some clients but you&#x27;ll get stuck in the same place that every other re-implementation of X11 over the last 30 years got stuck at, which is supporting any kind of weird quirky behavior in Xlib and its large collection of client libraries, and the rest of the quirky behavior in the X server. Eventually you&#x27;ll end up copying large sections of code out until it slowly transforms back into Xlib and Xorg and effectively it becomes another approximation of an X server. If that&#x27;s fine with you then by all means keep going, but please don&#x27;t continue along with the idea that you can avoid this. It has been tried many, many times before.