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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

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88 points clircle | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jmclnx ◴[19 Sep 25 23:38 UTC] No.45308107[source]▶
That is the thing with Wayland, it is much harder to create a window manager for Wayland. IIRC, fvwm decided not to create a Wayland version due to the difficulty.

When Wayland replacing X, lots of cool window managers and mini applications will be gone.

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1. GuestFAUniverse ◴[20 Sep 25 00:08 UTC] No.45308326[source]▶
The blame could be as well on Haskell.

IMO Ganeti died because of such a choice. There aren't enough programmers that are willing to invest into that niche.

I have nothing against that language per se, still such a choice can easily develop into a dead end.

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2. kelvinjps ◴[20 Sep 25 00:33 UTC] No.45308524[source]▶
There are multiple window managers in other languages that won't build a Wayland equivalent due to the effort so it's not only about the language
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3. GuestFAUniverse ◴[20 Sep 25 02:26 UTC] No.45309650[source]▶
Fair enough, but it's not helpful either.