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History of Greenfield (in-browser Wayland compositor)

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Summary

This post chronicles the Greenfield project, describing the journey from implementing a browser-based Wayland compositor in 2017, through experiments with WebRTC, GStreamer, MSE, and TinyH264, to a wasm-based rendering stack and an eventual Kubernetes operator for cloud-desktop sessions. It highlights the engineering challenges and pivotal design decisions, offering historical context on in-browser virtualization and browser-native UI architectures.

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