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klrr on Nov 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM

Can someone explain why they want to do this in Python and not judt C and Xlib?

aerique on Nov 12, 2012 [–]

Window managers aren't very computationally intensive so a person can use whatever language he is most comfortable with.

Although I haven't seen a WM written in Brainfuck yet.

klrr on Nov 12, 2012 | [–]

Well, I think I'll try it, I need to practice some python.

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