The Arcan project[1] has pushed for this for a loooong time and doing some really interesting cutting edge things with it.

Depending on which set of Lua scripts it runs it fills a different role. The first set becomes the display server and window manager. It can then run itself recursively to provide graphical 'apps' (but also X11 ones, Wayland ones, ...).

I run the 'regular' desktop (stacking, tiling, ...) 'durden' right now, but I hope to switch to the more crazy dataflow/zui one (pipeworld[2]) or the VR one (safespaces[3]).

Then it has an additional 'curses like' one for TUIs and CLIs, 'arcan-tui' with a default shell Lash#Cat9[4]. Looking at their recent posts there also seem to be a network story including server-side processing, but I haven't had the time to play with out more than following the examples in the blog so can't say more about that.

EltaninOS[5] is trying to build a distribution around it.

Everything scripted in Lua.

[1] = https://arcan-fe.com [2] = https://arcan-fe.com/2021/04/12/introducing-pipeworld/ [3] = https://arcan-fe.com/2018/03/29/safespaces-an-open-source-vr... [4] = https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash... [5] = https://eltaninos.org/

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