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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

by 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

by emacs27 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