Show HN: I replaced tmux with sway workspaces

I used tmux for about a decade and wrote quite a bit of automation around it, including tmux_super_fingers. But eventually I got frustrated with project sessions being limited to terminal windows. In particular, the browser tabs belonging to those projects were all mixed up in a single browser window.

So I wrote hop[1], which uses sway workspaces instead of tmux sessions. Terminals, editors, browsers, or any other windows really, can now all belong to the same project.

What I hadn't quite anticipated was how liberating it would feel to use the system's own tools - windows, workspaces, clipboard, scrollback, etc. - instead of tmux's alternatives. No more two layers of window management or competing keybindings.

On top of that, hop has proven to be a great fit for working in sandboxed environments. With tmux, sessions are tied to a tmux server running on a particular machine or inside a particular container. With hop, local, containerized or remote (or both) are all allied under one banner.

I realise most folks won't be able to use it - it requires rather extravagant tool choices (notably, sway) - but it's an interesting experiment nonetheless. And it's been working great for me for months now.

[1] https://github.com/artemave/hop