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# Smithay
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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. ;-)
## Goals
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).
## Current status
Nothing is done yet, I'm starting to figure out the design.
## Why?
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I'm doing this because I find it interesting. Also, I'd love to see a pure-rust¹ wayland
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compositor.
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*(¹: Almost, as some very low-level bits will necessarily still be C. But let's keep them minimal, shall we?)*
