SDL Still Has A Number Of Issues To Address Before Defaulting To Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SDL Still Has A Number Of Issues To Address Before Defaulting To Wayland

The recently released SDL 2.0.16 brought much-improved Wayland support but it's still not quite good enough yet to have it be the default over the SDL X11 path. However, developers continue working in that direction to eventually use it by default...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SDL-Wayland-State-2021

[wertigon]

Awesome news!

Watching the presentation it pretty much just needs to have two finalized extensions for MESA, if those can be approved soon, SDL Wayland might actually have liftoff in version 2.0.18!

[s_j_newbury]

I've been using SDL/Wayland by default for years. I've had to locally patch bug fixes on occasion, but there have always been bugs even when using the X11 backend. On the whole I've had an excellent experience.