[jegp]

Great. If they can make some money out of this, why not?

I wonder what happens if they lock down some features as premium-only. The competition is tight in this space and there are tons of alternatives to Hyprland, like Sway, River, etc. Monetizing open-source code sounds like a dangerous path...

[yencabulator]

Niri is in the exact same style of smoothly animated tiled columns sliding around, and it's much more pleasant as a community/project. And if you care, it's in Rust not C++.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

[nextos]

There's not a lot of competition yet.

Sway is good, but lots of fantastic WMs with great UIs are still stuck in X. Needing a massive re-write doesn't help.

My personal favorites (XMonad, StumpWM, and EXWM) have all tried but failed to get ported to Wayland.

[arguflow]

Tiling window managers on Wayland still are pretty early sadly.

[yencabulator]

I've been using Niri for a solid year, it's been great.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri