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geokon • yesterday at 10:17 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

terminal emulation keeps playing a central role in "computing" not withstanding it being an ugly prehistoric crocodile. Do you ever envision creating something modern, without the warts and with a design that incorporates half a century of lessons-learned? Something that fills this need but in a more elegant package? I'm asking because you're one of the few people that seems well-positioned to make a clean-slate replacement

I personally avoid using the terminal as much as possible b/c the whole things feels very archaic/fragile/baroque - but the central idea seems great and I'd love a modern take on it


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elcritch • today at 2:05 AM

Certainly parts of terminals protocols are archaic, but overall it's not nearly as fragile as you make it out to be.

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