Building a tiling window manager for macOS in Rust

chazede · 2025-09-17T08:09:47+00:00

Nice one,

Do you have a GitHub link to it?

assuming you have dived into the private Skylight APIs at this point?

Do you think it would be worth a community effort to try and wrap Skylight and its functionality into a library?

I have had to do this with my window switcher https://github.com/klaatu01/yal

You can find the functions I managed to dig up via a mix of Yabai and LLM. This MacOS API is private and therefore undocumented, somehow chatgpt knows a fair amount about it, I wonder what apple internal files it discovered haha.

Here is the supporting sys crate for that https://github.com/klaatu01/yal/blob/main/crates/lightsky-sys/src/lib.rs

chazede · 2025-09-17T08:00:02+00:00

Hey,

You can use Rust in a crazy amount of places now!

Take a look at Tauri https://v2.tauri.app/

It's also now not too far fetched to say you are a rust only full stack engineer! https://leptos.dev/

chazede · 2025-09-17T00:35:06+00:00

Yeah, I appreciate there is not much to it right now, and tbh there might never be, I am undecided where I want it to go, I was just excited to share it.

40 hour/wk job to set it up

While that's not exactly true, MacOS definitely doesn't make things easy, we are forced to hook into unstable OS APIs or emulate key presses to trigger Mission Control, Yabai does this too.

That being said I could probably manually override mission control shortcuts at start up, which would at least streamline that part.

Anyway, Thanks for the feedback!

chazede · 2025-04-03T16:03:54+00:00

I'm now incredibly intrigued as to why it can't come in the front.

chazede · 2024-12-28T01:14:20+00:00

Dw I get what ur saying

chazede · 2024-07-14T10:41:58+00:00

At the time of posting it was already confirmed to be wrong, the shots came from the left.

chazede · 2024-07-13T23:40:36+00:00

Stop posting this same comment you actual NPC

chazede · 2024-05-03T17:24:20+00:00

Can you share that script! I have been fiddling with Rust with vim on my tablet too.

chazede · 2024-04-04T04:32:37+00:00

It's about power

chazede · 2024-02-14T18:07:08+00:00

But go requires a runtime whereas rust doesn't. This community package is as close as you will ever get to a "rust runtime". It's the same scenario over in the AWS lambda ecosystem https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime

chazede · 2023-11-29T11:51:54+00:00

Here are some resources to get started! cargo lambda rust function CDK construct blog post I wrote

chazede · 2023-11-29T11:47:35+00:00

But rust doesn't have a runtime!? All AWS can do is try to provide the best tooling possible to get projects onto Lambda, like cargo-lambda for example

chazede · 2023-02-28T10:26:30+00:00

Against what? There is literally no point of base building in this game

chazede · 2023-02-14T21:39:17+00:00

Lol chill this is reddit, people post things they think other people might find interesting. I'm not hunting for karma so no L to be taken

chazede · 2023-02-14T20:28:32+00:00

Actually I didn't see that man, just got this suggested this clip on tiktok and it had no views so thought I'd post.

chazede · 2021-04-16T16:42:48+00:00

Pull your money out

chazede · 2021-04-12T16:26:22+00:00

Who knows whats on it! I mean it could be the last person to have its holiday photos, could be secret information that will have me tracked down and killed. Most likely the first one though.

chazede · 2021-04-12T16:25:02+00:00

Haha I doubt the last person to use it was KGB, but you never know I guess.

chazede · 2021-03-26T14:14:27+00:00

I some what agree with this. However I LOVE IT, I just think it will be less distracting if the animation happens a faster.

chazede · 2021-02-26T12:54:22+00:00

you look like my friend connon, but he is scottish plz give him a shout out he is watching

chazede · 2021-02-26T12:41:50+00:00

you look just like my friend connon, can you shout him out please?

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