In the spirit of 2026 as the year for “Building Bridges”, I found a - hopefully - interesting project to introduce.
Phoenix is an attempt to write an X server that seeks to ditch the X11 baggage by implementing a stripped-down and modern subset of the protocol on current infrastructures. I think it has two things that we might find cool: it is written in Zig programming language, and like Genode is licenced under a GPL.
As more of an armchair follower than guru, I don’t really know much about the capabilities of the window manager in Sculpt, and thus whether a project such as this would bring much to the table beyond what we got. Maybe as a way to advance Zig within Genode, and also facilitating the port of more graphical unix programmes?