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By window manager started out as ~50 lines of Ruby copying an equivalent amount of C. You can say many things about Wayland, but it's "simple" from a point of
by vidarh 2y ago
By window manager started out as ~50 lines of Ruby copying an equivalent amount of C.
You can say many things about Wayland, but it's "simple" from a point of view I for one really do not care about. Wayland may be "simple" in some respects, but it makes most of the things I care about doing unnecessarily complex.
- bee_rider 2y agoWalyand probably would have been better if wlroots had been developed as a (whatever this means) first-party “built-in” library.
- vidarh 2y agoEven then, "tinywl" which aims to be a "minimum viable product" Wayland compositor based on wlroots is almost 1k lines: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/tree/master/tinywl https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/tree/master/tinywl