zephyros

This is a really interesting topic to me, because I've felt a pull toward things like this myself and seen it for decades. For example, the top of the README in my Zephyros project[1] was very playfully done, and very well received too. People are naturally more lighthearted and organic than the sterile software and documentation we tend to write, and we're more social too, wanting to connect with others even if it means through a simple in-joke or catch phrase. [1] https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros

I wrote Zephyros[1] for Mac OS X, which is scriptable in pretty much any language, and used that for a while. Eventually my OCD kicked in about the performance of Zephyros's server/client architecture on my laptop, so I forked it as Phoenix[2], which is only scriptable via an embedded JavaScript VM. Now I use Phoenix exclusively. Here's my current tiling config[3] for Phoenix. But I'm currently trying to make the transition from Mac OS X to Windows 8. So I plan to port Phoenix to Windows, and I'm naming it ZephSharp[4] (I'm terrible at naming things). It's going to be written in C#, which fortunately has ClojureCLR, so Clojure will be its scripting language instead of JavaScript (hoorah!). [1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros [2]: https://github.com/sdegutis/phoenix [3]: https://gist.github.com/sdegutis/7756583 [4]: https://github.co

I only started using C# because I wanted to write some Windows programs[1]. And just like ObjC for Apple, C# is the primary blessed language of the platform, so if you want to write apps there, you have to use this. But even though I came for the platform, I might stay for the language. [1]: I'm porting my OS X window manager (https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros) to Windows.

There is also a scriptable window manager: https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros/

I've been working on a scriptable window manager for Mac OS X called Zephyros - https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros By scriptable I mean you can write your scripts in almost any language, and there are already built-in libraries in Ruby, Python, Clojure, Go, and JavaScript for doing it. By "window manager" I mean you can move around windows and resize them and stuff using a programmatic API. And you can bind global hot-keys to your callbacks in whatever language you're using.

i've been using [1] Zephyros (nee Windows.app) for the last while. similar to slate, i guess. [1] https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros