A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
Warning: This is a very new project, still in the process of shaping itself. I cannot recommend to use it unless you want to help driving it forward. ;-)
Smithay aims to provide building blocks to create wayland compositors in Rust. While not being a full-blown compositor, it'll provide objects and interfaces implementing common functionnalities that pretty much any compositor will need, in a generic fashion.
Also:
- Safety: Smithay will target to be safe to use, because Rust.
- Modularity: Smithay is not a framework, and will not be constraining. If there is a part you don't want to use, you should not be forced to use it.
- High-level: You should be able to not have to worry about gory low-level stuff (but Smithay won't stop you if you really want to dive into it).
Nothing is done yet, I'm starting to figure out the design.
I'm doing this because I find it interesting. Also, I'd love to see a pure-rust¹ wayland compositor.
(¹: Almost, as some very low-level bits will necessarily still be C. But let's keep them minimal, shall we?)