Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir (Linux Voice)

Linux Voice has an interview with Canonical's Thomas Voß, the technical architect of the Mir display server. The interview deals largely with background topics, such as the Mir team's decision to standardize on an API rather than define a protocol, and the various languages to support. "Obviously there are disadvantages to having only one graphics language, but the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. And I think that’s a common theme in the industry. Android made the same decision to go that way. Even Wayland to a certain degree has been doing that. They have to support EGL and GL, simply because it’s very convenient for app developers and toolkit developers – an open graphics language. That was the part that inspired us, and we wanted to have this one graphics language and support it well."