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Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows. Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN

by emacs27 11y ago

Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows. Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.

emacs27 11y ago
In fact, there is already a Lisp (Common, not Emacs) tiling WM called StumpWM. If you haven't heard of it yet, it's partly because the Lisp community isn't so embarrassingly insecure and desperate for anything they can pass off as a "killer app" (see Macsyma or Emacs itself) that they feel compelled to shove it down everyone's throat.
- deleted 11y ago
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- arianvanp 11y ago
  Why the attitude? Can we just sit down, relax, and enjoy the awesome hack that this is without being all "we're too cool for hacker news"? . I'm really glad someone shared this today as it really brought a smile to my face.
- TurboHaskal 11y ago
  And that's exactly why Common Lisp is fading into obscurity while the "embarrassingly insecure" Clojure community is making the language take over.
  - yenda 11y ago
    The sad truth
- lispm 11y ago
  Actually there are lots of X11 window managers in many languages. If we look at Common Lisp, window managers are not new. https://common-lisp.net/project/eclipse/ https://common-lisp.net/project/eclipse/ https://common-lisp.net/project/clfswm/ https://common-lisp.net/project/clfswm/ Well known is Stumpwm: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/wiki https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/wiki It's easy to write a minimal WM in Common Lisp: http://paste.lisp.org/display/19072 http://paste.lisp.org/display/19072
  - DonHopkins 11y ago
    I'm insecure and desperate for anything I can pass off as a "killer app" for Forth and pie menus, so here's an X10 window manager (yes, X10 not X11) with pie menus that's extensible in Forth: http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/piemenu/uwm/fuwm-main.f http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/piemenu/uwm/fuwm-main.f
    - lispm 11y ago
      Cool. Sure there was X10 in Lisp, too. ;-) Robert Scheifler wrote an X10 server for the Lisp Machine. http://ml.cddddr.org/slug/msg01083.html http://ml.cddddr.org/slug/msg01083.html
johnchristopher 11y ago
Which window manager are you referring to ?
- jeorgun 11y ago
  I'm going to assume from context that they're talking about xmonad.
dangirsh 11y ago
As a happy emacs and xmonad power user, I'd love to see more of both! Why so defensive?

by emacs27 11y ago

emacs27 11y ago

In fact, there is already a Lisp (Common, not Emacs) tiling WM called StumpWM. If you haven't heard of it yet, it's partly because the Lisp community isn't so embarrassingly insecure and desperate for anything they can pass off as a "killer app" (see Macsyma or Emacs itself) that they feel compelled to shove it down everyone's throat.

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arianvanp 11y ago
Why the attitude? Can we just sit down, relax, and enjoy the awesome hack that this is without being all "we're too cool for hacker news"? . I'm really glad someone shared this today as it really brought a smile to my face.
TurboHaskal 11y ago
And that's exactly why Common Lisp is fading into obscurity while the "embarrassingly insecure" Clojure community is making the language take over.
- yenda 11y ago
  The sad truth
lispm 11y ago
Actually there are lots of X11 window managers in many languages. If we look at Common Lisp, window managers are not new. https://common-lisp.net/project/eclipse/ https://common-lisp.net/project/eclipse/ https://common-lisp.net/project/clfswm/ https://common-lisp.net/project/clfswm/ Well known is Stumpwm: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/wiki https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/wiki It's easy to write a minimal WM in Common Lisp: http://paste.lisp.org/display/19072 http://paste.lisp.org/display/19072
- DonHopkins 11y ago
  I'm insecure and desperate for anything I can pass off as a "killer app" for Forth and pie menus, so here's an X10 window manager (yes, X10 not X11) with pie menus that's extensible in Forth: http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/piemenu/uwm/fuwm-main.f http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/piemenu/uwm/fuwm-main.f
  - lispm 11y ago
    Cool. Sure there was X10 in Lisp, too. ;-) Robert Scheifler wrote an X10 server for the Lisp Machine. http://ml.cddddr.org/slug/msg01083.html http://ml.cddddr.org/slug/msg01083.html

johnchristopher 11y ago

Which window manager are you referring to ?

jeorgun 11y ago
I'm going to assume from context that they're talking about xmonad.

dangirsh 11y ago

As a happy emacs and xmonad power user, I'd love to see more of both! Why so defensive?