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drek
on July 8, 2012
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goomwwm: Get out of my way, Window Manager
Looks cool, but what's up with the source being just one 4k line C file?
jrockway
on July 8, 2012
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It's all going to end up in the same executable anyway!
r4pha
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dwm is a really nice tiling window manager and is even smaller:
https://github.com/sr/dwm/blob/master/dwm.c
to3m
on July 8, 2012
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Some people like it that way!
Also, it's 3,727 lines.
buro9
on July 8, 2012
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It isn't:
https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm/blob/master/goomwwm.c
drek
on July 8, 2012
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Umm yeah that's a 4k line C file?
davidgomes
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What matters is size, not lines. You can just inline everything and it'll be like 3 lines of code.
tikhonj
on July 8, 2012
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It's a question of readability and code organization, not sheer size.
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