Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

Re:Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API by sdegutis on Thursday July 03, 2014 @09:39AM (#7982961)

Hydra is indeed my successor to Phoenix. Phoenix and Zephyros (and AppGrid if you can find it) are deprecated in favor of Hydra. But I can't just delete those projects, as existing users may not want to port their configs to Lua. Oh how I wish I could though.

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Re:Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API by Slackwise on Thursday July 03, 2014 @10:02AM (#7983100)

I find it great that you've opted for Lua over JS. I see far too many projects with JS shoveled in where Lua would be a better, cleaner, and simpler fit.

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Re:Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API by sdegutis on Thursday July 03, 2014 @10:25AM (#7983209)

I'm very glad to hear that. I was expecting a lot of people to be disappointed that it's not JS, but honestly I think Lua is a lot cleaner and simpler, and it is just so small and easy to integrate with in C, it's really hard not to use it in a project!

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Re:Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API by ics on Thursday July 03, 2014 @12:53PM (#7984191)

I'm one of those people still using Zephyros, mostly so that I could keep using beer (https://github.com/v-yarotsky/beer). I skipped Phoenix but might give Hydra a try (knowing no Lua though) just to see what you've been doing with it.

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Re:Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API by sleepybrett on Thursday July 03, 2014 @12:33PM (#7984064)

Put me on the list of disappointed that it's not JS.

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