Concerns Regarding the Choice of Rust for the Xfce Wayland Compositor

[Brian Tarricone]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2026, at 14:07, Wojciech S. Czarnecki wrote:

>> I'm not sure what the solution is here, if there is one.
>
> No external dependencies.  Vendor and vet everything. (Still vulnerable 
> to the toolchain intrusions, but)

Completely unrealistic for a project like Xfce, so this isn't even worth considering.

>> > Xfce has always been trusted because its codebase is relatively small and auditable.
>> 
>> This feels like a bit of a stretch to me.  Do people really think about Xfce in these terms?  
>
> I do.  

I meant that as a general/statistical question.  If the answer is "30% of Xfce users care about this" then sure, that would mean I'd want to consider that more carefully.  But if it's 1% -- which I suspect is much closer to the truth -- then I can't really put much emphasis on this, given my own limited time and resources.

Regards,
Brian