It's been years and years, but for a while I was using various Gnome Shell extensions that gave me tiling window management. I gave up only because I wanted to

It's been years and years, but for a while I was using various Gnome Shell extensions that gave me tiling window management. I gave up only because I wanted to get out of the Gnome DE (all the associated CPU and memory hogging services that I don't want). I actually have fond memories of Gnome Shell and Mutter -- all of the functionality is exposed through the JS extension infrastructure, so it's virtually trivial to implement any kind of window manager that you want. (well... it helps that I enjoy programming in JS...) I just wish that it was decoupled from Gnome.