D port of the Dynamic Window Manager (DWM)

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On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 06:17:03 UTC, stewart h wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've ported DWM to D as a learning exercise and thought I'd 
> share it. The repository can be found here:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/growlercab/ddwm
>
> (Beware, I've only tested it on Arch-Linux 64 bit for about 1 
> day!)
>
> DWM is a minimalist dynamic window manager from suckless. More 
> details on DWM can be found here
>
> http://dwm.suckless.org/
>
>
> The "cport" branch is where I've done as little as possible to 
> port the C code to D. It really looks like C code and is 
> basically the DWM code compiling with DMD.
>
> Under the "Downloads" section is a build of ddwm-cport to try 
> out if anyone is interested, or build from source as it's 
> pretty easy with dub.
>
> The master branch is where I'm learning D, trying new Phobos 
> functions and D style coding. I'm then comparing how the 
> D-style version performs with DDWM.cport and the original DWM 
> in terms of speed and memory.
>
> I don't expect the master branch to be stable but cport should 
> work fine.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Stew

Would you be interested in going full fork mode and adding new 
features to D version? I am big fan of tiling window managers and 
having one that is written in D and I can easily extend sounds 
tempting :3