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		josteink on Aug 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp Why not write the product in language X and then make it extensible via language Y? Well... For one it wouldn't be the emacs of window managers. If you want to go the full mile, you should go the full mile. Trying to do half a mile subset and hoping it is the right subset gets tiresome pretty quickly. I deeply respect them for doing it this way.

qbrass on Aug 12, 2014 [–]

>Well... For one it wouldn't be the emacs of window managers.

Emacs is some primitives written in C wrapped by a massive amount of Elisp extensions.

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