Hi All,
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 04:40:11PM +0200, e.waelde wrote: [...] > > The only thing I think could be improved in i3 is the config. i3 uses > > its own configuration file format which is quite restricted. Therefor, I > > suggest moving to a well-established scripting language that can be > > embedded into i3's C code - lua comes to mind. > ... > > I moved from xmonad to i3 *because* I did not grok the "configuration". > xmonad is written in Haskell, and configuring it means to overload certain > functions with your own implementation. While this is elegant it certainly > wasn't my way. > > So I'm all happy with i3 having a declarative config file and an interface > to instruct it with any programming language. I must second firmly on this ! i3 internals (declarative config *and* IPC) are very well thought :-) Using a scripting language for a WM's config is a design mistake, in my opinion... A+ -- JFS.
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