Never programmed with Wayland (or X) before but this doesn't look so terrible. Let's say I want to do something only slightly more complicated than this article, e.g. have a few static rectangles on the screen showing images and text, without any window decorations, like for a status bar or a clock or something. If I don't want to roll my own protocol-handling code as in this article, what libraries are good? In say Rust or Go or something? Every time I've looked into Gtk or Qt they seemed way too complicated, doing far more than I want and introducing too many abstractions and dependencies. Conceptually all I want to do is:

    window = make_stupid_simple_undecorated_window(x, y, w, h);
    paint_window(window, some_image_buffer);
    block_forever();