NB I'm not condoning editor warring. Just pointing out that one can use arguably the best bit of vi/vim in emacs (the keybindings).
In all seriousness, this is pretty cool, and it uses libxcb. Nice.
Seriously though, this joke has unbeliveable staying power, despite being almost as old as emacs itself.
M-x recycle-jokeAlso, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.
Why so defensive?
If you haven't heard of it yet, it's partly because the Lisp community isn't so embarrassingly insecure and desperate for anything they can pass off as a "killer app" (see Macsyma or Emacs itself) that they feel compelled to shove it down everyone's throat.
If we look at Common Lisp, window managers are not new.
https://common-lisp.net/project/eclipse/
https://common-lisp.net/project/clfswm/
Well known is Stumpwm:
https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/wiki
It's easy to write a minimal WM in Common Lisp: