kawa
A small Wayland compositor inspired by Plan 9's rio. (by DeedleFake)
wl
Pure Go Wayland protocol implementation. (by DeedleFake)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kawa
Posts with mentions or reviews of kawa.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
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GLFW has merged proper support for client-side window decorations on Wayland!
Source: I've been slowly building my own wlroots-based compositor for about a year now and I also wrote my own pure Go implementation of both sides of the Wayland protocol for the fun of it.
wl
Posts with mentions or reviews of wl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
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GLFW has merged proper support for client-side window decorations on Wayland!
Source: I've been slowly building my own wlroots-based compositor for about a year now and I also wrote my own pure Go implementation of both sides of the Wayland protocol for the fun of it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kawa and wl you can also consider the following projects:
go-wayland - Wayland Client in Pure Go
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
mir - The Mir compositor
gamen - Cross-platform GUI window creation & management library in Go
Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
go-formatter - A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software