alt Hacker NewsThe better alternative to most of this is to use a different display protocol, one that gives you pixel-level control, if you want pixel-level control.
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alpaca128 • yesterday at 2:09 PM
Can you name one which is as lightweight and simple to use as terminal escape codes and supported by almost any platform with a screen and keyboard?
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oblio • yesterday at 11:12 AM
This protocol would still be used for user interfaces, but it would use a completely different approach to rendering them, I guess we could call this approach "graphical"?
Now we are in GUI app territory which is why I don’t like this terminal proposal or even kitty gfx. The terminal should be about text processing and at most a 2d grid of cells. Once you start talking about pixel buffers replacing cell buffers I fear we have lost the plot.