Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI

Starling is a newly announced open-source Linux desktop environment built over the past six months primarily using Claude AI. It features its own Wayland compositor written in C, a full Flutter framework port to Swift (no Dart VM), an in-tree X11 server for compatibility, and runs on the Flutter engine's C core via a DRM/KMS embedder. It supports real-world apps like Chrome, VS Code, Slack, GIMP, and Blender via linux-dmabuf zero-copy import. Currently an early v0.2 preview, it ships as a ~53 MB .deb for Ubuntu 26.04, tested on AMD and virtio-gpu. Intel and NVIDIA support, along with dynamic scaling, are not yet available. The project is Apache 2.0 licensed and available on GitHub.

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