Yes, the xmonad approach is very neat, but I see 2 major (IMO) drawbacks to
it:
1) The end-user has to have GHC, and all the necessary libraries to compile
the configuration
2) A scripting language should be simple and QUICK to learn : Haskell is
clean, powerful but its learning takes time
Uwe, I noticed kind of recently the haskeem package, I have not tried it yet
and I didn't know its usability. If you say it's not made for that, then I
believe you.
2010/5/5 Yitzchak Gale
Maciej Piechotka wrote:
After change of file you have to wait a long time as it compiles and links with yi.
But Yi is a far bigger application than what Limestraël is talking about. One of my computers is very old and much less powerful than yours (let's just say that it has far less than 1 Gb memory in total). On that machine, xmonad, still much larger than Limestraël's app, recompiles its configuration file almost instantaneously. And of course, even that fast recompile only happens when I change the configuration, which is almost never.
I would try the xmonad approach to scripting in Haskell. It is much simpler to implement than any of the others, and much neater if you find that it works well.
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