Background

StumpWM grew out of the authors' frustration with writing [[ratpoison?]] in C. Very quickly we realized we were building into [[ratpoison?]] lispy-emacs style paradigms. We had a REPL hanging off 'C-t :', hooks, and a growing subset of Common Lisp in the implementation.

It was clear what we REALLY wanted was a window manager written in Lisp from the ground up with lots of room for customizing and real-time hacking.