[Nix-dev] Use Haskell for Shell Scripting

[Michael Raskin]

>I use the same combination (xmonad + taffybar) and could complain all
>day long about it.  Of course this is constructive criticism, and I'm an
>idealist to some extent, but still there is a lot of room for
>improvement.
>
>For example xmonad is too rigid.  It has a fixed data structure that
>corresponds directly to what is displayed on each screen.  Workspace
>names are strings, which is hugely inconvenient.  Something like
>tag-based volatile workspaces are not possible, although with some
>really ugly (and slow) hacks you could do it.
>
>In the ideal graphical environment I wouldn't see any reason to close or
>move a single window -- ever.  Xmonad gets closer, but is still far
>away.

Maybe you need to script it properly? Maybe StumpWM is less rigid from 
the beginning, though (I use it and extended it for my needs, so I can
probably answer your questions if you wonder about it; it is in Common
Lisp, by default all the splits are manual, and there are many hooks to
perform actiosn on events like window addition)