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And I see no purpose in switching to Wayland as long as Xorg keeps working just fine. > If you liked bspwm then you might want to try this: https://github.com/riverwm/river If I wanted to spend time redoing my configuration, maybe, but I have better things to spend my time on. So in however many years it takes before getting Xorg running starts taking more effort than switching. I'm not expecting that to happen anytime soon.

I still see no purpose to do that, with a lot of hacking it would be also possible to make XWayland work with window managers. But that also would be pretty pointless to do because those other parts of the X protocol are also bad and need to be replaced, you might as well just rewrite the window manager. If you liked bspwm then you might want to try this: https://github.com/riverwm/river

This particular example is machine-generated code created by translate-c, it's meant to be semantically equivalent to the C code and even uses language features that you're normally not even supposed to use (c pointers). Reasonable Zig code looks more like this: https://github.com/riverwm/river/blob/master/riverctl/main.z... That said I think it's fine if you don't like the syntax. I think that some complaints are honestly too superficial to be legitimate (like complaining about builtins being prefixed with @), but at the same time Zig is often times prioritizing explicitness over "good looking". I personally consider Swift a very good looking language, but then I look at all the new features that got added since I used it last, remember that I value simplicity over aesthetics, and go back to Zig.

Since various people are asking about xmonad-like tiling in wayland: I wrote Vivarium[0] specifically to be a wayland compositor that behaves exactly like my (fairly simple) xmonad config, but it's a relatively new/unstable compositor and nothing like xmonad internally. River[1] has a fantastic tiling model via user-provided executables, which makes it very flexible and probably a good fit for many people wanting something xmonad-like. Waymonad[2] exists as a direct xmonad-like compositor, but I think development has been basically stalled for a long time. Sometimes there's discussion about reviving it though (edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28796909 for more up to date detail). Japokwm[3] is another compositor with xmonad user roots, but again its own tiling model. [0] https://github.com/inclement/vivarium [1] https://gith

written in Zig, neat. wiki has one of the best lists of base Wayland utilities I've seen: https://github.com/ifreund/river/wiki/Recommended-Software gonna be hard to pry myself off Sway but I ought to try it.

https://github.com/ifreund/river https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124wdTckHNY

Another Wayland compositor written in Zig is ifreund/river [1]. Isaac, the author, gave a talk on choosing C vs Rust vs Zig on Zig SHOWTIME a while back [2] and also has an upcoming talk at FOSDEM 21 [3] [1] https://github.com/ifreund/river [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwrA5IRGpfU [3] https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_wayland/