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  • From a developer’s standpoint, one of the bigger pain points of Wayland is window embedding.

    If you want to embed from an external process, the only way to do this is to have your application expose its own Wayland compositor and then have the embedded process use that Wayland compositor. No one has made a library for this as of yet.

    If you want to embed from the same process, it shouldn’t be too difficult; you just need a wl_subsurface. However, this doesn’t work too well with most GUI toolkits.

    Wayland is just radically different from every other windowing API, and I’m hoping that the GUI toolkits can adapt.