Company
Date Published
Author
Luis Héctor Chávez
Word count
889
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

We have reimagined the native graphics experience on Replit, addressing performance and reliability issues with a new system that is faster, more reliable, and elegant, allowing games and other native GUI applications to launch quickly and reliably, fixing common issues like application not launching and window resizing. The new system uses the X Windows System for display graphics, leveraging networking capabilities and technologies like VNC to support remote graphical user interfaces, while avoiding the use of outdated solutions like x11vnc and the LD_PRELOAD trick, instead opting for a modern combined X server + VNC server solution that improves performance and startup time. Additionally, we have improved the Java Swing experience with more powerful virtual containers, providing a quick and reliable experience for teachers and students.