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I wonder if blink could be used as a lightweight sandbox. Looking at PR46[0], it seems sandboxing is not one of the current features, but it would be cool to have a way to run arbitrary code (e.g: Python) in a sandboxed environment. Even cooler if you could limit the amount of memory/CPU used.
[0]: https://github.com/jart/blink/pull/46#pullrequestreview-1264...
XQuartz does not properly support HiDPI, so it's never going to be great on Macs anymore:
https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/issues/91
Besides that, even Linux is slowly moving to Wayland.
Well, there is a Wayland Compositor for macOS:
https://github.com/owl-compositor/owl
It still lacks a lot of features though (I think, I never tried it out)
There's a X with sixel support: https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-sixel
I played with this before, and I could use X11 within a mlterm terminal.
I should try to recompile it with cosmopolitan to have a single X server binary both for Windows and Linux
And this is why I'm so interested in Sixel support for the Windows Terminal (https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal/issues/448)
With that and a X server using sixels, there would no longer be a need for something as complex as wslg for most apps: you could just export DISPLAY in your .bashrc, then use one Windows Terminal tab to start X apps, and the other one to display/interact with them.
I always think these announcements are about https://blink.sh/
I don’t know why it’s okay to steal product names like that.
If someone is looking for some low hanging fruit in the way of contributing to cosmopolitan, they could teach its scanf()[1] family about floats[2]. (May not be as low-hanging as it first appears though, as converting floats correctly is trickier than it might first appear to be. The comments in the code say it can do floats, but the comments are mistaken.)
[1] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/fmt/vc...