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I used to write an X11 window managers as a kick-the-tires exercise when learning a new language. The most fun one was Common Lisp with CLX. You could stay in t
by fmakunbound 5y ago
I used to write an X11 window managers as a kick-the-tires exercise when learning a new language. The most fun one was Common Lisp with CLX. You could stay in the WM and code it live. When something went wrong you could continue after making fixes. It’s what lead me to Common Lisp being my favorite language going on decades now.
- moocowtruck 5y agoand we in the industry have traded all that power and flexibility for...a gigantic mess of lock-in, never ending nouns, and "needing the right language for the right job", when in reality they all become crap lisps
- hulitu 5y agoThere was a window manager (gwm) written in a lisp dialect (wool). It was very nice.