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		vidarh on Oct 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any vi... 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 on Oct 14, 2024 [–]

Walyand probably would have been better if wlroots had been developed as a (whatever this means) first-party “built-in” library.

vidarh on Oct 15, 2024 | [–]

Even 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

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