Gnome is transitioning to Only Wayland Support

Wayland and Rust are things we'll almost certainly have to get used to.
In the same way that we had to get used to Cocoa and Node.js. They both take a back seat for many people (I have written ~2 lines of code for each).

Wayland - Is still Linux specific. BSD might go that way but I doubt macOS, Windows, AIX or Solaris will follow (mostly due to lack of interest). Its just yet another backend for SDL/GTK to deal with; not the vast majority of developers or users. (other than perhaps seeing lots of our favorite software die as part of the migration).

Rust - Is more a dependency manager than an actual language. It will always rely on C (and to a lesser extent C++) for the actual system-level implementation, just like Python, Perl and Node.js do.

So frankly, I think we are already as "used" to them as we need to get.
 
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