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StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp

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Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are mistaken. One could always modify StumpWM at runtime, via SLIME, which is far superior to geiser. Common Lisp is also superior to Scheme (as a language) and SBCL/CCL are miles better than Guile in particular, Guile being one of the worst Scheme implementations out there.

Those are a lot of claims to throw out there in one sentence. Can you elaborate a bit (although I'll give you SLIME over Geiser)?

The incompatibilities between Schemes is one for starters.

Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp

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post #13

If you'd prefer to use Scheme over Common Lisp and would like to get your hands dirty, consider hacking on guile-wm. I try it out from time to time and make small patches to improve it. You can modify guile-wm at runtime by connecting to the REPL server using telnet or the geiser Emacs extension. I recall StumpWM not having something as convenient. I wish guile-wm was under more active development, so maybe a few mor…

You are mistaken. One could always modify StumpWM at runtime, via SLIME, which is far superior to geiser. Common Lisp is also superior to Scheme (as a language) and SBCL/CCL are miles better than Guile in particular, Guile being one of the worst Scheme implementations out there.

Your knowledge of Guile is outdated. Read http://wingolog.org

Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp

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There is also another project written in Common Lisp, The Deep Space Window Manager : https://github.com/dss-project/dswm

Does someone have some experience with it ?

The README has the following statement :

"DSWM is a fork of StumpWM, so have most of all features, which have StumpWM, but it designed for better usability and better integration with emacs."

Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp

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post #13

If you'd prefer to use Scheme over Common Lisp and would like to get your hands dirty, consider hacking on guile-wm. I try it out from time to time and make small patches to improve it. You can modify guile-wm at runtime by connecting to the REPL server using telnet or the geiser Emacs extension. I recall StumpWM not having something as convenient. I wish guile-wm was under more active development, so maybe a few mor…

You are mistaken. One could always modify StumpWM at runtime, via SLIME, which is far superior to geiser. Common Lisp is also superior to Scheme (as a language) and SBCL/CCL are miles better than Guile in particular, Guile being one of the worst Scheme implementations out there.

> Common Lisp is also superior to Scheme (as a language)

Your comment would be much better without this bit, which is entirely subjective.

Re: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp

#30
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are mistaken. One could always modify StumpWM at runtime, via SLIME, which is far superior to geiser. Common Lisp is also superior to Scheme (as a language) and SBCL/CCL are miles better than Guile in particular, Guile being one of the worst Scheme implementations out there.

> Common Lisp is also superior to Scheme (as a language) Your comment would be much better without this bit, which is entirely subjective.

All what humans say is subjective.
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