Background

StumpWM grew out of the authors' frustration with writing ratpoison in C.

We realized it was not enough building into ratpoison lispy-emacs style paradigms. It had a REPL, 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.