Xenia - Xorg/Xlibre X server porting project

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 10:42:45AM +0000, Roman Vlasov via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I want to present you my small pet project.
> 
> In few word, its trying to port Xorg/XLibre X server from C to Dlang.
> 
> For more info see main GitHub page:
> https://github.com/vlasovroman96/xenia
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"Small"? "Pet project"??  Porting the entire Xorg X server does not
sound like a "small pet project" in any sense of the word. :-D

Nevertheless, I applaud your effort.  In the long term, one would expect
the code to have less vulnerabilities caused by C's deficiencies, such
arrays decaying to pointers, etc..  But from the sounds of it, it's
currently just a straight transliteration of C into D, so pretty much
all of the problems with a C codebase would still be present.  It will
likely take significant effort to replace the C idioms with D idioms.
I'd be very interested in the result, though, if you get there!


--T