Window managers can plausibly already do a lot of what other software can do, yet in practice, popular workflows tend to assume very little from the window manager.
I try to avoid terminal multiplexers in favour of Sway/Emacs/dtach/SSH multiplexing, but I still often reach for tmux.
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Another great example of the eternal question, where the indirection go? Note that when browser tabs were invented this same debate happened.
+1. I think that about summarises it.
Window managers can plausibly already do a lot of what other software can do, yet in practice, popular workflows tend to assume very little from the window manager.
I try to avoid terminal multiplexers in favour of Sway/Emacs/dtach/SSH multiplexing, but I still often reach for tmux.
Now I have terminal tabs in my IDE and can mix and split with code in all sorts of ways