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I'm a 16yo developer making a real world project that I and others can use on a daily basis. The aim for sxwm is that it's a really easy to configure (syntax-wise) tiling-window-manager that doesn't need to be patched and is incomplete like DWM or is bloated like i3. It has less LOC than DWM too which is a plus.

If you are thinking of switching to a tiling window manager, this is a great option to mess around and see if you enjoy it!

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A small suggestion regarding framing, you might find yourself getting a friendlier welcome if instead of putting other software down, you instead highlight why yours is good. For example, instead of saying i3 is bloated, you could say your project is more lightweight than i3. Similarly, instead of saying DWM is incomplete, you can say yours is more feature complete than DWM. It might feel like a small difference, but attitudes and first impressions matter, especially as you can see from the other comments in this thread. You don't have to put others down to lift yourself up.

Yeah this is good advice. You don’t bring yourself up by trash-talking others down.

By what measure is i3 bloated out of interest?

"Bloated" is just the standard complaint to go for if you don't have anything specific to complain about but don't like a piece of software for, what I assume are, theological reasons.

Congratulations on the project! This is an impressive feat at any age. Personally, I love how you found your own balance between extreme minimalism and a useful set of features, arriving at a solution that is indeed below 2k lines of C code. That kind of thinking is not a quality every software developer has, and you could make a career out of it if you decide to work professionally in this field.

> incomplete like DWM or is bloated like i3. It has less LOC than DWM too which is a plus.

Can you elaborate on this?

Talking about bloat while relying on X11 instead of Wayland, in these times?

Tss...

> It has less LOC than DWM too which is a plus.

Why? Especially as an end user.

For an end user this needs to be translated. Fewer lines of code mean better long-term maintainability. It could also mean better stability and less bugs. However, that is not granted as you can introduce pretty severe bugs also with few lines of code. And of course the less lines of code, the less features a program has. But if you're happy with that, it is a good thing.

But yeah, that still leaves a lot of questions that can be answered much better if not using the lines of code argument.

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