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X11 can't recover from an Xorg crash though.
That's okay since X11 is stable and not very crash prone for the last few decades.
The WM and Shell are far more likely to crash, which is it's completely fucking retarded to move any of their logic into the display server.
> That's okay since X11 is stable and not very crash prone for the last few decades.
I've been using wayland on three computers for the last two or three years and haven't had a crash that could be attributed to wayland in like.. more than a year?
I've had mesa driver crash when running a particular game a few months ago that eventually got resolved by... updating mesa. I bet many people wrongly attribute that to wayland.
I found Xorg crashyness depends on how shitty your drivers are. Agreed that merging the components is a bad idea. Under KDE, there is more of a split, kwin does compositing and WM stuff, and plasmashell does the shell and other UI bits. In theory they don't need to all be in one process either. I also found that kwin crashing doesn't bring down apps these days, haven't tested that theory with X11 Xwayland apps though. Also see my other comment about Arcan for proper crash resilience.
applications can reconnect to the compositor, KDE already supports this, and Qt does too. They also contributed code to gtk/gnome to do the same, which they are slowpoking on..
you are talking about things you do not know enough about