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Minetest gets scary when you look at the code and see that the engine they use is basically abandoned and will never get Wayland support. Afaik?
It's not like they're stuck on some outdated proprietary engine like RPG Maker. Minetest is under active development, with a small list of dependencies that are also under active development. It is under no particular rush to get off of X11/Xwayland.
Thanks :) it is a bit confusing
Irrlicht is discontinued but I think it is under a different name now
Is that a typo or is that distinct from just straight Wayland?
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html
It provides backwards compatibility for running X apps under Wayland.
That sounds useful!