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I've used Slate for 2 years. Slate hasn't had an update in 2 years. It was supposed to be replaced by Zephyros, no Phoenix, no Hydra, no Mjolnir, no ...

Despite the lack of updates, Slate is what I still use to this day. It still works, and it does the job well.

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Seems to me that the Phoenix/Hydra/Mjolnir guy has moved past window management to a much more general problem space that I don't particularly find interesting or useful (also, come on, lua is lovely in concept and I'm sure superior to JS in uncountable ways, but FFS, we all know JS and if I'm going to get up to speed on a new language, it's going to be for an actual programming project, not something silly like configuring a window manager). However, Phoenix got picked up by a new maintainer and seems like the best of the bunch at the moment. It's what I use.

As a maintainer of a Mjolnir fork (Hammerspoon), I take your point that there are very many options in this space, but IMO that can be a good thing - lots of exploring in different directions can help us figure out what works well for people :)

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