From the «might make it bearable» department:
Title: Jwno: a highly customisable tiling WM for Windows built with Janet Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 20:59:28 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/142405/jwno-a-highly-customisable-tiling-wm-for-windows-built-with-janet/


Jwno is a highly customizable tiling window manager for Windows 10/11, built with Janet[1] and ❤️. It brings to your desktop magical parentheses power, which, I assure you, is not suspicious at all, and totally controllable.
↫ Jwno documentation[2]

Yes, it’s a Lisp system, so open your bag of spare parentheses and start configuring and customising it, because you’re going to need it if you want to
use Jwno to its fullest.

In general, Jwno works as a keyboard driventiling window manager[3]. When a
new window shows up, it tries to transform the window so it fits in the
layout you defined. You can then use customized key bindings to modify the layout or manipulate your windows, rather than drag things around using the mouse. But, since a powerful generic scripting engine[1] is built-in, you can literally do anything with it.
↫ Jwno documentation[4]

It’s incredibly lightweight, comes as a single executable, integrates perfectly
with Windows’ native virtual desktop and window management features, has support for REPL[5], and much more.

Links:
[1]: https://janet-lang.org/ (link)
[2]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/ (link)
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager (link)
[4]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/features.html (link)
[5]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/repl/index.html (link)

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Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote at 03:39 this Wednesday (GMT):

From the «might make it bearable» department:
Title: Jwno: a highly customisable tiling WM for Windows built with Janet Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 20:59:28 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/142405/jwno-a-highly-customisable-tiling-wm-for-windows-built-with-janet/

Jwno is a highly customizable tiling window manager for Windows 10/11, built with Janet[1] and ❤️. It brings to your desktop magical parentheses power,
which, I assure you, is not suspicious at all, and totally controllable.
↫ Jwno documentation[2]

Yes, it’s a Lisp system, so open your bag of spare parentheses and start configuring and customising it, because you’re going to need it if you want to
use Jwno to its fullest.

In general, Jwno works as a keyboard driventiling window manager[3]. When a new window shows up, it tries to transform the window so it fits in the layout you defined. You can then use customized key bindings to modify the layout or manipulate your windows, rather than drag things around using the mouse. But, since a powerful generic scripting engine[1] is built-in, you can literally do anything with it.
↫ Jwno documentation[4]

It’s incredibly lightweight, comes as a single executable, integrates perfectly
with Windows’ native virtual desktop and window management features, has support for REPL[5], and much more.

Links:
[1]: https://janet-lang.org/ (link)
[2]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/ (link)
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager (link)
[4]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/features.html (link)
[5]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/repl/index.html (link)

Looks awesome.

I wonder how long it will take for MS to "accidentily" break it.
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user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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On Thu, 22 May 2025 20:40:03 -0000 (UTC)
candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote at 03:39 this Wednesday (GMT):

From the «might make it bearable» department:
Title: Jwno: a highly customisable tiling WM for Windows built with Janet Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 20:59:28 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/142405/jwno-a-highly-customisable-tiling-wm-for-windows-built-with-janet/

Jwno is a highly customizable tiling window manager for Windows 10/11, built
with Janet[1] and ❤️. It brings to your desktop magical parentheses power,
which, I assure you, is not suspicious at all, and totally controllable. ↫ Jwno documentation[2]

Yes, it’s a Lisp system, so open your bag of spare parentheses and start

[]

It’s incredibly lightweight, comes as a single executable, integrates perfectly

When I was a boy Lisp was a heavyweight language. Oh how this change.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:44:20 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

When I was a boy Lisp was a heavyweight language. Oh how this change.

The core of Lisp is actually quite small: there is a set of “special
forms” that have to be special-cased by the parser. Everything else is a function or macro call.

For me, an early exposure to Lisp was looking at the Franz Lisp manual.
This was the language that Macsyma was written in. The manual mostly
consisted of describing the built-in functions and macros -- I think there
were hundreds.

Macsyma itself was resource-hungry enough to bring our VAX-11/780 almost
to its knees. Our sysadmin patched the executable to change the page fault cluster size from 16 to 1, and that helped a lot.

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