Why Nix?
If you’ve opened this PDF, you already have your own motivation for learning Nix. Here’s how it helps me. As a researcher, I tend to work on a series of short-term projects, mostly demos and prototypes. For each one, I typically develop some software using a compiler, often with some open source libraries. Often I use other tools to analyse data or generate documentation, for example.
Deep in your innermost being, you’ve always known you were destined to learn Clojure. Every time you held your keyboard aloft, crying out in anguish over an incomprehensible class hierarchy; every time you lay awake at night, disturbing your loved ones with sobs over a mutation-induced heisenbug; every time a race condition caused you to pull out more of your ever-dwindling hair, some secret part of you has known that there has to be a better way.
Now, at long last, the instructional material you have in front of your face will unite you with the programming language you’ve been longing for.
Forth is a fascinating language , created by computer genius Charles Moore in 1968 .
Sometimes Forth is called a low level language, but you can make high abstract programming as well. In fact, in Forth you are encouraged to CREATE YOUR OWN LANGUAGE to resolve a task. Forth is VAST , Forth can be its own OS ! * . But Forth generates the most compact code known , even more than Assembler. Experienced implementators can create a program in no time. Beginners should start learning with patience. To master Forth you will have to forget all what you learned before, be ready to learn a totally new phylosophy of programming !
Wayland is the next-generation display server for Unix-like systems, designed and built by the alumni of the venerable Xorg server, and is the best way to get your application windows onto your user's screens. Readers who have worked with X11 in the past will be pleasantly surprised by Wayland's improvements, and those who are new to graphics on Unix will find it a flexible and powerful system for building graphical applications and desktops.
This book will help you establish a firm understanding of the concepts, design, and implementation of Wayland, and equip you with the tools to build your own Wayland client and server applications. Over the course of your reading, we'll build a mental model of Wayland and establish the rationale that went into its design. Within these pages you should find many "aha!" moments as the intuitive design choices of Wayland become clear, which should help to keep the pages turning. Welcome to the future of open source graphics!
Notice: this is a draft. Chapters 1-10 are more or less complete, but may be updated later. Chapters 11 forward in large part remain to be written.
TODO
- Expand on resource lifetimes and avoiding race conditions in chapter 2.4
- Move linux-dmabuf details to the appendix, add note about wl_drm & mesa
- Rewrite the introduction text
- Add example code for interactive move, to demonstrate the use of serials
- Use — instead of - where appropriate
- Prepare PDFs and EPUBs
ISBN 978-1-61729-372-6
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