Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet

Re:Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in ... by agentkilo on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:48PM (#44043550)

I think Janet is quite...liberal? It's a practical language, but doesn't force a specific paradigm on you. There're "escape hatches" in different levels of the language, and I like that.

Maybe the most "opinionated" things in Janet are the ev stuff and fibers. I think they're done right though, you just need to be careful with the event loop when embedding Janet.

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Re:Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in ... by nicce on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:05PM (#44043701)

How it compares with Lua?

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Re:Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in ... by giraffe_lady on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:59PM (#44044734)

Strictly better unless you need an extremely small runtime rather than a very small one, or are exposing a scripting API to users who will recoil from prefix notation.

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Re:Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in ... by 77pt77 on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:21PM (#44043828)

This one actually has real arrays (mutable and immutable)

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Re:Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in ... by behnamoh on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:33PM (#44045629)

If you like Janet and Lua, might as well try Fennel, which was made by the creator of Janet.

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Re:Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in ... by nicce on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @07:05PM (#44046810)

I have read about Fennel many times and considered on trying it - I didn’t know that they have the same author!

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