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That's not what I said. What I said was that terminal was unbelievably fast. Especially for backwards scrolling which is an important use case to me.
by stuckagain 10y ago
That's not what I said. What I said was that terminal was unbelievably fast. Especially for backwards scrolling which is an important use case to me.
- chadcmulligan 10y agoI was just having a little joke, apologies if it came off as a criticism. It seems very strange to me that people are still talking about speeds of terminals, but not my field (any more) fortunately. One of the first things I wrote was a terminal emulator using telnet to run on PC-DOS using a port of curses to connect to our Sun 3's. To think in 2017 people are still concerned about terminals is very surprising to me.
- stuckagain 10y agoThe problem is the terminals have been getting monotonically slower over the last 20 years, whereas the amount of build spew I need to grope around in to find the relevant error has not decreased :-/
- chadcmulligan 10y agoyeah, I use ide's (Xcode/Appcode/VS/Delphi) for all my work so not really an issue. I can see if you're stuck with command line compilers though it would be annoying. I would hate to go back to make files and command lines ugh!
- Zardoz84 10y agoSo you are missing a wonderful world of powerful tools because you not like terminals.
- chadcmulligan 10y agoI would argue the reverse :-). I've used terminals in the past, had the beauty that is screen, even gave courses on vi. When bitmapped screens became available it was ide's for me.