xmonad

I was downloading and trying to get xmonad working, but within half an hour, had a completely unusable ghc / xmonad combination.

What xmonad does actually isn't hotswapping, but exec'ing the new code and simply passing the current state along.

The enormous complexity of configuring Xmonad is what got me to switch, honestly.

I use xmonad, have no desire for gnome, so Qt would have my preference, too.

Fortunately xmonad is written in a language with lazy evaluation, otherwise the recursion would never terminate and we'd overflow the stack.

Yes, Darcs predates Git by a few years and was used by GHC, XMonad, Happstack, and several other well-known Haskell projects.

It changed the way I think about user interfaces: there are opportunities for the ideas from xmonad and xmonad-contrib to be applied to window and view management on all sorts of devices and environments.

The only way I had seen of making this happen is what xmonad does.

I've been wanting an excuse to learn Haskell, XMonad could be the reason.

I was a one-time Xmonad user, but switched to i3 recently.

Aura really doesn't like my xmonad setup.

I'm faster overall in vi and xmonad with a browser window opened to the SDK docs than using arrow keys with code completion in XCode.

That the desktop stays functional probably is due to it being rather minimalistic - Xmonad, dzen2/dmenu, conky and trayer.

Xmonad is a revelation for anyone who spends most of their day on the computer.