Behold it in all its glory: https://perlwm.sourceforge.net/shots.html

Using Emacs to write Perl to configure your WM... Why not cut out the middle man, and https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

I hope it's deliberate that the screenshots link goes to creating a new page https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Screenshots

I suspect full screen Emacs in gnome, while not brilliantly efficient, is close enough to this project that I may as well stick with the mostly inert gnome layer

And because it's Perl I bet it runs pefectly on Perl interpreters shipped on OSes today.

> And because it's Perl I bet it runs pefectly on Perl interpreters shipped on OSes today.

That's a superpower (software that will not bitrot): last month for a new project, I hesitated between C and perl but chose perl.

Why exactly does perl not rot?

The maintainers are conservative about breaking changes. Almost all features are hidden behind “use” statements: for example, “use feature "bitwise"” splits the questionable & operators into & for numbers and &. for bitstrings. But old code will work exactly the same.

There are a few deprecations and things which have been removed from the language…like idioms that relied on interpreter bugs and have been obsolete for 20 years.

But if you run a Perl script without use strict, use warnings, or new command line flags, you’ll get a Perl experience largely unchanged since the turn of the century.

That’s my understanding anyways…

Unlike Perl, Python2 does not get any new bug fixes or features.