alt Hacker NewsI kinda keep talking about it in the hopes that someone will be nerd sniped enough to throw tokens at it as an idea. Sort of what you're probably doing too I guess. ;)
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josephg • yesterday at 4:39 AM
... Write up a more complete spec of the problem and I could be tempted to throw some tokens at it. But before I do, can you write up a more complete description of the problem with existing terminal protocols? I don't think I understand the issues well enough to make a good solution. Eg, can you give some examples of what apps are hard to build now? What prior art is worth looking at? Etc.
Ive been iterating on this idea for a few months now and dont want to divulge too much but ill tease it here: everyone is trying to rebuild the multiplexer but are doing it using the in-band ansi bytestream.
Fundamentally this is the wrong abstraction and it is painful to develop modern terminal features on top of it.
We need a terminal compositor protocol. We need to leave the pty behind and replace it with a unix socket. What other compositing protocols exist in the modern tech stack that we could extend?
Anyone can feel free to reach out to me if they want to chat about it: https://bower.sh