{
  "id": 3944138,
  "title": "Quest for eternal dock on Wayland - lambdock (C + GTK4 + Lisp GNU Guile Scheme)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/quest-for-eternal-dock-on-wayland-lambdock-c-gtk4-lisp-gnu-guile",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-28T10:17:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/gnu-linux/quest-for-eternal-dock/index.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This is the story of lambdock, a modern, hyper-hackable, Wayland-native desktop dock application written in C and Guile Scheme + GTK4 with a live REPL. The author, a heavy computer user and a lover of eye-candy and workflow optimization, has long dreamed of the ultimate desktop dock. To achieve this, they had to navigate through the graveyard of failed prototypes, uphill battles, and the GTK4 C runtime, embedding a living, breathing, interactive Lisp heart.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}