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Wayland support is actually being actively worked on. It is done via "native" (no X widgets) GTK support. You can find it on: https://github.com/masm11/emacs

The plan is to get that merged upstream at some point, you can find out more about it on the official mailing lists.

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The GTK fork is great, but it’s so slow - especially on HiDPI displays.

I tried it out on my 4K monitor and I felt a noticeable increase in typing latency. It started to feel a lot more like VS Code.

Ultimately I was about to get HiDPI support working in Xwayland in Sway with a series of patches and I ran Lucid Emacs, which was much faster and made the latency increase go away entirely.

Oh thank you for the link, I've had to discard emacs when I've switched to sway/wayland and I can't wait finally having emacs available for my muscle memory. Magit changed my life

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