Article 5666Z SWVKC Is A Vulkan-Powered Wayland Compositor Focused On Performance + Correctness

SWVKC Is A Vulkan-Powered Wayland Compositor Focused On Performance + Correctness

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While the current Vulkan API is exhaustive enough to implement full-featured Wayland compositors and X11 window managers, to date there hasn't been too much adoption considering OpenGL is still more pervasive among hardware/drivers and it's obviously a significant effort writing a new compositor from scratch. One of the leading (among few) examples of a Vulkan-powered window manager / compositor is ChamferWM, which does continue to be developed. SWVKC meanwhile is one that has been seeing development this year as an alpha-stage Wayland Vulkan compositor...
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