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Re:Ruby 3.4.0 by vidarh on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:36AM (#42508512)
They're written in Ruby from scratch. Some are available, e.g. the window manager is here:

https://github.com/vidarh/rubywm

Beware that one of the joys of writing these for my own use is that I've only added the features I use, and fixed bugs that matter to me, and "clean enough to be readable for me" is very different from best practice for a bigger project.

I'm slowly extracting the things I'm willing to more generally support into gems, though.

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Re:Ruby 3.4.0 by codesnik on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @10:03PM (#42512845)
thanks! I love ruby but I'd be afraid to do anything but web backends and shell scripting with it. it's people like you who move language adoption!
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Re:Ruby 3.4.0 by Maledictus on Thursday December 26, 2024 @06:55AM (#42514700)
wow, thank you for publishing this!
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Re:Ruby 3.4.0 by lucasoshiro on Thursday December 26, 2024 @08:12AM (#42514990)
Nice!

That's something that you could submit as a post here in HN

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Re:Ruby 3.4.0 by vidarh on Thursday December 26, 2024 @11:44AM (#42516153)
The wm was actually discussed on HN way back. I think once some of my other projects, like the terminal, is a bit more mature (it works for me and I use it for 99%+ of my terminal needs) I might post those too.

The biggest issue with these projects is that I feel uncomfortable pushing a few of them because I make a living of providing development and devops work, and my personal "only has to work on my machine and certain bugs are fine to overlook" projects are very different to work projects in how clean they are etc... But as I clean things up so they're closer to meeting my standards for publication I'll post more.

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