matthewkosarek

And yes - it is all AI-coded, so it's just for demonstration purposes :)

Hey all!

Moonswing is a largely AI-coded desktop environment for Linux. It is mostly a fun exploration, rather than a production-ready project, so use it at your own risk.

I work on Mir & Flutter, and I wanted to see how far I could push these technologies to give me a modern-looking desktop environment, entirely in one process and entirely in Flutter.

This was made possible now that Flutter supports multi-window, which I've been working on for about 3 years now.

I made this project hoping that I can inspire someone else to do a legit, less vibe-coded version of this. So feel free to take whatever you see here and make a better version of it on your own time!

Just a warning in case you use it: this is so vibe-coded, that I cannot in good faith tell anyone to use it as a daily driver. I personally use it everyday, but I am okay with a little bit of nonsense, obviously ;)

Enjoy!

I work on both the Mir Wayland compositor library and Flutter, and I've been wanting to fill a gap that I saw in the current Flutter ecosystem for a while now: desktop shell components on Linux. Now that Flutter is gaining multi-window capabilities on the desktop platforms (which I have been contributing to extensively), we can finally build our Wayland shells in Flutter . Come find me at FlutterCon USA in Orlando this year if you want to hear more about the new windowing API in Flutter.

I hope you have a fun time building shells with Flutter!

A WebAssembly plugin system for my Wayland compositor: https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm

The idea is that you'll be able to program window management, animation, configuration and more from WebAssembly plugins that are built with Rust. I've been wanting something like this for a while now in Wayland, especially something that skirts around the need for a heavy scripting language. I'm hoping to have a stable release of it by mid year.

I'm in the process of recreating the Niri window manager in Miracle: https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miri-plugin

Yup! A nice language-agnostic API + a lightweight runtime was my goal. Although I concede the point about debuggability and whatnot. I'm hoping to figure that out later down the road, but it is a tricky part.

A long, long time ago I implemented virtual outputs in Mir: https://github.com/canonical/mir/pull/3056

I forget if we've added dynamic configuration for them, but I don't see why it wouldn't be a possibility of we had upstream support there :)

I've been working on a new Wayland compositor called Miracle for about two years now. I recently built a plugin system for window management based off of WebAssembly. Check out my blog post for more information, but I think it is a solid and novel approach to separating window management from the compositor in Wayland. Let me know what you think!

There is also cxx.rs, which is quite nice, albeit you have to struggle sending `std` types back and forth a bit