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riverwm / river

river

[mirror] A non-monolithic Wayland compositor

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4.3KGitHub stars
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[mirror] A non-monolithic Wayland compositor

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Observed mentions: 2021-01-26 17:54:29 UTC to 2025-05-26 14:10:16 UTC.

024682021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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FYI the Zig compiler that people are still using today is the C++ one. The self-hosted compiler hasn't been released yet. There's some Zig code running today in the C++ compiler, but hasn't been there for the full life of the project and isn't the main source of bugs by far. To this day I think the top 3 popular Zig projects are Bun, as you mentioned, then River [1] and TigerBeetle [2]. [1] https://github.com/riverwm/river [2] https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle Up to you to decide how fine is the situation in those projects.
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No, the biggest feature of DWM is dynamic window tiling (pretty sure DWM stands for Dynamic Window Manager). Sway/i3 can be made to kinda dynamically tile with scripts, but it's much less consistent, less powerful, and hardly works. They are manual tilers and they don't try to be dynamic tilers. Personally I prefer being able to quickly toggle a dynamic window layout based on my current workflow, and switch back to manual tiling when I specifically need to manually tile. Currently I use Sway too as it's the most mature tiling compositor on Wayland, but once River WM[0], also based on wlroots, matures more I think I will likely make the switch because I often miss dynamic tiling. [0] https://github.com/riverwm/river On a side note, I hate how window moving works in Sway/i3. I can hardly ever get windows to move to where I want them to go w
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ith keyboard. As a result, I have a bind that enters a 'move' mode that takes the current selected window and moves it to a window that I can select. That, or I just use the mouse to drag the window, which is kinda annoying considering this is a keeb focussed environment.
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