On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:30 PM, yy <yiyu....@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/3/3 Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM, yy <yiyu....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Since Go was released I have been playing with it. Is there any >>> interest in the Go port of dwm? >> >> What would be the benefits of porting dwm to a new language? From my >> point of view, dwm is already functional and mature, porting it over >> to Go doesn't sound very constructive. >> >> // pipe >> >> > > I agree there are no inmediate benefits, but there is an incomplete > port in the repo (almost nothing) and I was asking if there was any > interest in finishing it. Anselm said, when Go was released, that he > was considering using Go for future suckless project. Although later > he decided he would wait until the language was more mature (which I > think was a right decission) I would consider porting dwm as a first > (experimental, if you want) step in that direction, not a final goal. > > Anyway, if there is no interest in the idea, that is perfectly fine, > and I won't arguee any more. There are many interesting projects. I > just thought I'd let it drop. > > @pancake: I would use xgb, which implements the X protocol, not C > bindings. In any way, I doubt you could notice the speed difference > between a Go and a C version of dwm (at least, not running it in > normal conditions; of course you could launch thousands of windows to > see which one is faster, but that would be even more stupid than > porting dwm to Go). > > @Anselm: I agree a MTA would be a good fit for Go. I would not apply > for that one, but it could be included in the ideas list. A werc port > would be interesting, I'd like to know uriel's opinion.
As I said in #cat-v, I don't think it makes much sense, a great part of the essence of werc is that it is just a bunch of shell pipelines, and that makes customization and specialized one-off apps and other hacks really beautiful, because you can often do it by just adding an extra sed(1) or grep(1) call here or there. What I would like is to see rc and the rest of the p9p commands ported to Go, which is the goal of the Goblin project: http://repo.cat-v.org/goblin/ Some people have already started to do work on this (I'm a lazy asshole that has been distracted by other things, but I hope to get to it). Then werc could run directly on the Go toolset. uriel > -- > - yiyus || JGL . 4l77.com > >
