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minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 hours ago major Wayland compositors are still written in C KWin is written in C++ but yes, it’s not a “safe” language. something like this isn’t too unlikely to happen again. With at least three mainstream implementations – KWin, Mutter, and wlroots – it’s highly unlikely that all would ever be equally affected by one bug.
KWin is written in C++ but yes, it’s not a “safe” language.
With at least three mainstream implementations – KWin, Mutter, and wlroots – it’s highly unlikely that all would ever be equally affected by one bug.