lmilon

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Systems easily understandable by one person(medium.com)
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Show HN: A demo of Xlambda: A window manager extendable in Scheme(youtube.com)
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by lmilon 7y ago
Ideally it would be amazing to have Xlambda be a good fit for GuixSD, as I really like that project. Also, same! Guile (and Scheme, in general) are growing in popularity a lot and it makes me really happy.
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by lmilon 7y ago
I wrote about why I didn't go with guile-wm here: https://lobste.rs/s/ssl8wx/xlambda_v1_released_window_manage... Reproduced below: I actually have a pretty good reason for doing so, libwm already had most of
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by lmilon 7y ago
Yeah, I've seen scwm, I figured it was too old to try and adapt for today. I haven't heard of Rwind! I used Racket mainly, before this, so it's definitely interesting to me. I'll definitely look into that. Xmonad is one
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by lmilon 7y ago
There are differences in how you'd use them. Scheme is very focused on a minimal core and extension through macros and similar constructs, whereas, as far as I know (nb: I don't use emacs) Elisp has a lot of pre-built constructs t
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by lmilon 7y ago
It definitely is user-oriented! I'm dogfooding this as I develop it, so I'm trying to make it as comfortable as possible. It is very "experimental" right now because it's such an early release, but that should chang
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by lmilon 7y ago
I'll record a demo this week! I wouldn't recommend trying it as a standalone window manager right now. Maybe by V3 it should be usable. I don't know much about EXWM, but I would guess the fact it uses Guile affords different
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Show HN: Xlambda – A window manager extensible in Guile(github.com)
67 points by lmilon 7y ago|22 comments