What does HackerNews think of river?

The most relevant uses of Zig that come to mind are:

- Bun, as you mentioned - https://tigerbeetle.com/ - https://www.uber.com/en-IT/blog/bootstrapping-ubers-infrastr...

Plus a bunch of other companies (including some very big ones) and projects that use Zig here and there, eg AWS uses cargo-zigbuild https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime/blob/e2d5...

Zig also has a few other very promising OSS projects:

- https://github.com/riverwm/river (wayland compositor) - https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig (HAL for embedded development) - https://machengine.org/ (truly cross-platform gamedev) - https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev (another serious gamedev toolkit)

Just off the top of my mind. Like for all things, you gotta get started somewhere and this is where we are at the moment.

River does that for the windows layout https://github.com/riverwm/river

FYI the Zig compiler that people are still using today is the C++ one. The self-hosted compiler hasn't been released yet. There's some Zig code running today in the C++ compiler, but hasn't been there for the full life of the project and isn't the main source of bugs by far.

To this day I think the top 3 popular Zig projects are Bun, as you mentioned, then River [1] and TigerBeetle [2].

[1] https://github.com/riverwm/river [2] https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle

Up to you to decide how fine is the situation in those projects.

Nothing quite like AwesomeWM yet, but here's two I'm aware of that have some interesting features:

https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/wiki

https://github.com/riverwm/river

(I'm also on Sway, FWIW)

No, the biggest feature of DWM is dynamic window tiling (pretty sure DWM stands for Dynamic Window Manager). Sway/i3 can be made to kinda dynamically tile with scripts, but it's much less consistent, less powerful, and hardly works. They are manual tilers and they don't try to be dynamic tilers.

Personally I prefer being able to quickly toggle a dynamic window layout based on my current workflow, and switch back to manual tiling when I specifically need to manually tile.

Currently I use Sway too as it's the most mature tiling compositor on Wayland, but once River WM[0], also based on wlroots, matures more I think I will likely make the switch because I often miss dynamic tiling.

[0] https://github.com/riverwm/river

On a side note, I hate how window moving works in Sway/i3. I can hardly ever get windows to move to where I want them to go with keyboard. As a result, I have a bind that enters a 'move' mode that takes the current selected window and moves it to a window that I can select. That, or I just use the mouse to drag the window, which is kinda annoying considering this is a keeb focussed environment.

And I see no purpose in switching to Wayland as long as Xorg keeps working just fine.

> If you liked bspwm then you might want to try this: https://github.com/riverwm/river

If I wanted to spend time redoing my configuration, maybe, but I have better things to spend my time on. So in however many years it takes before getting Xorg running starts taking more effort than switching. I'm not expecting that to happen anytime soon.