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tudorr.ro
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tudorr.ro is a personal blog at tudorr.ro about programming, systems and writing. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Should You Write a Wayland Compositor?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment, on a Hyprland thread, discusses how much work Wayland compositors need compared with X11 window managers. It does not discuss the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Should You Write a Wayland Compositor?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-26
- Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-04
What Hacker News says?
The problem with "alternative" Wayland compositors is that so much more functionality is pushed into the compositor under the Wayland architecture compared to window managers on X11. So it's a ton more work to write a Wayland compositor than an X11 window manager, and most of it is tedious boilerplate that almost certainly has nothing to do with your motivation for writing a new compositor in the first place. This i…
Comment linking /blog/technical/2021/01/26/the-wayland-experience/
on “Hyprland, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on looks”Submitted Should You Write a Wayland Compositor? as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should You Write a Wayland Compositor? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to manage services in FreeBSD jails with Ansible as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Package Managers: What Do They Do, Really? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacky Spell Checking for Blog Posts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should You Write a Wayland Compositor? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My experience with high school computer science as a story · 1 points
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