Last time I checked hyprland was pretty much despised in the wider linux developer community. See for example https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html. Has anything about that changed?

Yes. Hyprland has burnt bridges with many of the classic/pre-existing Linux dev communities. Amongst other things, the main developer was banned from freedesktop.

But they have a very, very large user base, which means lots of contributors - especially young, first-time-FOSS/Linux contributors. In a way, Hyprland has partially done what Linus was hoping to do by adding Rust to the kernel (attract the next-generation of young developers). And they have an active BDFL - no "led by committee" issues.

the linux developer community is not a monolith and drew devault is an extremist activist gatekeeper.

i don’t care, hyprland is great software and much better than whatever the ‘non-toxic as labeled by drew devault’ communities have come up with for WMs

Nah it's just the people who don't like them are really loud.

Drew Devault is a left wing nutjob. He's done nothing but cause drama and attack people for years now.

Vaxry is an immature ~20 year old Polish dude. That means a bit of angst, Eastern European humour, more conservative opinions than most US tech workers.

Yeah, Vaxry is considered abrasive to some of the ultra-privileged leftwing US tech sphere. Most people don't care, just as people don't care about DD's views when using Sway, Miguel de Icaza's views when using Gnome, etc...

The linux developer community has quite a diverse set of opinions so it would be unfair to say that they despise hyprland. At most it's just a small number of developers who hold such an extreme position.

I don't think despised is correct. Drew made an argument for more mature and responsible behavior and leadership but some people just want to write code and not manage a community. I think that can be a lot to expect from some young programer thrown into the public eye, Hyprland is a well regarded implementation amongst tiling wms but the category always has and in my opinion always will have limited appeal for good reason.