On 10/04/14 16:08, Timo Schmiade wrote: > script i3 as it is now, you not only have to learn a programming > language, you also need to write, run and maintain your own process > communicating with i3.
I'm not sure it's reasonable to require everyone who wants to try i3 to learn the bulk of a general purpose programming language just to make it easier for the, I would imagine, much less frequent case of people who want to script it. On the other hand, it does seem reasonable to allow people who want to do the scripting to learn the IPC side. Personally, if i3 had used Lua to configure it, I probably wouldn't have even given it a second look... The simple, obvious configuration format was part of the reason I selected i3. This was because I came to i3 after trying xmonad and awesome, both of which use general purpose programming languages for configuration, neither of which I am familiar with, and both of which I could barely get snippets of other people's configurations working because the sheer amount of syntax you have to know to do so. i3's configuration language isn't a drawback, it is a benefit. Sean
