[ANN] first release of hs-wayland-scanner
Haskell Community [Unofficial]
April 12, 2026
Great to see! A higher level API for River would be much appreciated. I think another thing that the Haskell community lacks right now is good wayland-client bindings… and, of course, the looming shadow of a compositor library. Stuff like hs-wayland-scanner will make this long-term goal much, much easier.
I was trying to figure out, for Rivulet, a way for it to show a simple window on the screen when the user has a bad config - something like a small dialog box saying “Config compilation failed…”. I quickly learned that doing this in Haskell is much more complicated than I thought, and now I’m probably just going to use notify-send. But hopefully we get there eventually! More higher-level GUI bindings are the key!
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