Show HN: WaylandClientKit – a Swift Wayland client substrate for Linux

Category: library

Tags: swift, wayland, linux-gui

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

WaylandClientKit is a Swift package that provides typed Swift APIs over Wayland client protocols for building native GUI applications on Linux, operating below existing toolkits like GTK or Qt. It is interesting for its low-level, protocol-shaped design and comprehensive coverage of Wayland features like windows, input, and data transfer, though it remains experimental and niche.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/conxlgtm/WaylandClientKit · Swift · Apache-2.0

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