[timidger]

Author here. Certainly part of the ugliness of wlroots-rs is my fault (unsafe code + macros is not a fun combination).

However, I tried quite a few ways to make this safe and ergonomic. Perhaps some better way exists that I missed, but even if a solution exists the work needed to implement it is very, very boring.

wlroots is very much a C API, but I admit I was expecting it to be easier to use from Rust and is my current biggest criticism with the language.

Normal Rust is normally not this inscrutable - however it does have a lot of features that could make it as hard to read. It requires a certain amount of discipline that you don't see in simpler languages like Go. I for one never write macros if I can help it anymore.