@1ace
Somewhere in between? I started working on it a while ago, but have been forced to put it on hold due to lack of time.

It's not that things have to be rewritten, but a lot of new glyph rasterization logic that has to be written.

I'm still hopeful it can be done. Whether in the near future depends on your definition of "near" ;)

@markstos
It's similar to niri, but simpler. Niri is still much more mature.

Instead of switching between ratio presets, you increase or decrease the with of a window.

There are no animations.

Unless you run the latest git master, and enable an option, focusing wraps around. This is something I found very confusing (and why I reported it - they were very quick to add an option).

There's no concept of "columns" - you can't group multiple windows in a single column. All windows are always as tall as the screen.

No rounded corners.

@mei
When a signed value is promoted/expanded to a wider type, the sign is extended too, even if the target type is unsigned.

I.e your cast to uint16_t can be seen as a double cast, first to int16_t, then to uint16_t.
@sertonix