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by mazamats 3287 days ago
The most annoying thing is the mouse lag and higher resource utilization compared to i3.

Aside from that, it's great though. I used it for a month before going back to i3, you've really put a good amount of work into the project.
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Sir_Cmpwn 3287 days ago
That's fair, it definitely has inferior performance.
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riquito 3287 days ago
What are the reasons? Is there any problem that cannot be solved?
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Sir_Cmpwn 3287 days ago
A lot of it comes down to the choice to use wlc[1], a library that provides some of the low-level plumbing for Sway. It was great for getting Sway up and running quickly, but it's not very flexible for the directions we want to go. Most of Sway's performance issues are due to WLC or decisions Sway had to make to accomodate WLC.

Currently most of the work on Sway is being done on wlroots[2], with the goal of replacing wlc. The design is much more flexible and should have better performance and should avoid imposing constraints on Sway that impact its performance. A lot of Sway features are also currently blocked by wlroots, since wlc isn't flexible enough to allow us to implement them. I'm actually lucky enough to be working on wlroots full time at the moment, thanks to a generous commercial sponsor[3], along with some support from Patreon[4]. The future is definitely bright for Sway :)

[1] https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc [2] https://github.com/SirCmpwn/wlroots [3] https://nyantec.com/ [4] https://www.patreon.com/sircmpwn

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