let's not invent these new kinds of applications based on terminal tech

i agree with that. the terminal with its escape sequences needs to go away, it is old and limited. however the commandline will not go away. nor should we give up text based applications. both are too powerful for that.

so what we want is a modernization of the commandline. this is happening with alternative shells, but also with ttyphoon and other projects. and efm brings the power of the commandline to the gui directly. i'd like to see more projects like that.

i see a large spectrum here. some projects try small incremental changes (sixels for example, a wierd concept, and i ask myself why, but ok). others try to bring more powerful datastructures to the commandline. good, because those are terminal independent. on the GUI side there have been various attempts to send objects between applications already for decades. none of them achieved broad acceptance. there is a lot of potential still. a GUI for data pipes for example would be nice. there is one for the terminal. tmux is a terminal manager, it is gaining GUI support. doesn't get rid of the terminal, but modernizes it. small incremental steps. 10 years ago i would not even have believed that alternative shells would gain acceptance. but they are. half a dozen projects that break bash compatibility and are gaining popularity.