waymonad VS waymonad

waymonad has a somewhat more active fork here: https://github.com/L-as/waymonad, but it's still just a one-man show that got picked up at ZuriHac 2021 and then failed to gather sufficient momentum.

As a maintainer of xmonad upstream, I'm watching the waymonad project to see where it goes, but I have some concerns about its architecture which I'd love to see addressed before we'd officially endorse people to try switching. This is a copy of a message I sent to fellow xmonad developers a couple months ago:

> We should certainly take a look sooner or later. From a quick glance, I have some concerns about the general design of it:

The fork https://github.com/L-as/waymonad appears to be getting quite a few commits fairly recently. (I'm not affiliated with and know nothing about the author(s); I was just looking at the Github forks to see if waymonad was truly dead as https://www.reddit.com/r/xmonad/comments/i5ivfa/is_waymonad_dead/ claims.)

I am personally waiting for Waymonad. https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

It takes time, but the teams behind wlroots etc are doing good work to make sure that wms managed by smaller teams can exist. There are even clones for your specific wm on wayland. See https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

In addition, there was the last commit in 2019. Thus, it can be assumed that the project is dead and therefore nothing will change on the current state. And according to https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44, there are probably not enough people who would actively participate in a fork.

Ideally xmonad would be ported/xmonad devs would be working on waymonad, but I doubt it will happen. Waymonad seems to be abandoned.

Nice to see Qtile on Wayland. But I'm personally waiting for xmonad on Wayland.

https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

I wouldn't count on it, as Waymonad has not seen active development since 2019 and the Haskell bindings to wlroots have not been updated since 2019 as well. There is a fork, but it has not been active since September 2021. Also, it was based on wlroots, not sway.

That's what the XMonad fans are using: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad lets you write your Wayland compositor in Haskell, is analogy to the way XMonad lets you write your X window manager in Haskell.

Unfortunately it was abandoned https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44

regarding keeping an interest, waymonad has been dead for something like two and a half years but according to startrack it's still getting people giving him stars so i don't think you should worry about it.