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Phoenix: A New X Server Written From Scratch With Zig

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For X11/X.Org fans there is a new Christmas surprise: Phoenix as an in-development X Server written from scratch using the Zig programming language.

Phoenix is a new X Server written from scratch in the Zig programming language for providing better safety. Phoenix hopes to become a modern alternative to the X.Org Server but admittedly right now is "not ready to be used yet" although it can render simple applications with GLX, EGL or Vulkan.

Phoenix hopes to be simple, secure, better designed for modern technology like variable rate refresh (VRR) and HDR, better graphics handling, allow for more easily extending the X11 protocol, and to provide Wayland compatibility.

Those wishing to learn more about this in-development Phoenix X Server effort can do so via [1]the Git repository .



[1] https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/tree/README.md


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