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I guess that rules out any chance of a port to Wayland.

You cannot port a Window Manager to Wayland. You rewrite a WM for Wayland.

(disclaimer: Co maintainer of AwesomeWM here, we are doing it by merging with the Way-Cooler project)

This is great news!

AwesomeWM user here - thank you for your efforts! :)