Hacker News: matthewkosarek

No More JetBrains Products for Me

matthewkosarek — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:30:58 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewkosarek.xyz/posts/jetbrains/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185188

Points: 101

# Comments: 136

Miracle – A Wayland Compositor You Can Script with WebAssembly

matthewkosarek — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:57:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952759

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Miri – a plugin to make miracle-wm scrollable

matthewkosarek — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:54:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miri-plugin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933213

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

I built a Wayland window manager you can extend with WebAssembly

matthewkosarek — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:20:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911997

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by matthewkosarek in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

matthewkosarek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:09:22 +0000

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

Show HN: Miracle Release v0.9.0 – A hackable Wayland compositor

matthewkosarek — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:51:41 +0000

Hi all. I am very excited to announce the release of Miracle v0.9, now with full hackability! Miracle's plugin system is built on WebAssembly. We provide a Rust API for building plugins for window management, animation, and even configuration. Feel free to give it a try today!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706967

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

I wrote a WebAssembly plugin system for my Wayland compositor

matthewkosarek — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:19:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kohl9wy3S7g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698247

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by matthewkosarek in "Miracle – A hackable window manager for Linux"

matthewkosarek — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:41:13 +0000

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.

Miracle – A hackable window manager for Linux

matthewkosarek — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:08:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665403

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by matthewkosarek in "Creating a WebAssembly Plugin System for Window Management in Miracle"

matthewkosarek — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:12:51 +0000

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 :)

New comment by matthewkosarek in "Creating a WebAssembly Plugin System for Window Management in Miracle"

matthewkosarek — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:29:07 +0000

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!

Creating a WebAssembly Plugin System for Window Management in Miracle

matthewkosarek — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:29:07 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewkosarek.xyz/posts/miracle_plugins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508697

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by matthewkosarek in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

matthewkosarek — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:56:33 +0000

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