[cianmc]

Wayland, and the entire Linux Window manager situation seems like a massive mess from the pov of an outsider, a widely used, stable and open-source app that can bypass this unnecessary complexity could be a great example for other apps to follow

[shmerl]

Not sure what you mean about bypassing complexity, but reinventing the wheel might be a waste of time unless you really need it.

For example Wine supporting Wayland had to do a lot of relatively direct work with the protocols and it made sense there, but otherwise you can just use SDL or something similar or even a higher level toolkit like Qt.