Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to heavily using Claude LLM for development, dismisses ethical concerns (www.spurint.org)

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/64896415

For additional context, here's Brian's previous blog post about the first preview release of Xfwl4, where he describes his history with Xfce and the sponsorship.

https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/06/xfwl4s-first-preview-release

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[-] vivendi@programming.dev 9 points 5 hours ago

Because enlightenment libraries are pure running diarrhea level of utterly horrendous, actually horrifyingly bad code.

There is a super famous "Daily WTF" post from a Samsung employee literally forced to work with Enlightenment libraries (back when Samsung was doing TizenOS) that would be an awesome read, although it's behind a login gate nowadays.

GNOME's stuff are actually pretty easy to work with

[-] exu@feditown.com 6 points 3 hours ago

The internet archive comes to the rescue, here's a link to the rant.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230317214426/https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened

this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026

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