I think anyone trying to write a Wayland compositor at this point, especially if they are rewriting an X window manager, should be using WLRoots. I don't /think

I think anyone trying to write a Wayland compositor at this point, especially if they are rewriting an X window manager, should be using WLRoots. I don't /think/ writing a compositor with WLRoots is lower level that writing an X wm in, say, XCB.