They have similarities, but awesome is a graphical tiling window manager, whereas tmux is only for terminal sessions.

/s

I was about to make en emacs joke, but I don't feel the need anymore.

Tmux inside Awesome <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I see what you did there. ;-)

This is awesome! I've been using tmux for years and didn't even know there were plugins.

Count me in that list! This is fantastic, and is likely to help push me over the edge to using tmux by default on my local workstation.