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Funny thing is I use my i3wm environment on 16gb of RAM and a 4k screen. I'm actually migrating to rat poison because it's so incredibly simple and basic that it has been making me drool. I mean, look at the source code. It doesn't get much simpler than that for a tiled WM.

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If you are interested in rat poison, you may also enjoy xmonad. I've used both and much preferred xmonad

Load the entire GHC garbage collected runtime just for my window manager? Isn't this the same philosophy that causes people to use Electron? And that results in unnecessarily large memory footprints and runtime performance penalties?

Xmonad is rock solid, lightening fast, and perfect for many who prefer to minimize their reliance on a mouse

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