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While GPU accelerated 3D interfaces (like it in 3D games) is a good idea (at least one could mix data visualization and with controls - the way WebGL guys do it
by lngnmn 10y ago
While GPU accelerated 3D interfaces (like it in 3D games) is a good idea (at least one could mix data visualization and with controls - the way WebGL guys do it) a terminal emulator does not require any acceleration, leave alone having a Nvidia drivers or Cuda as a dependency.
What a decent terminal emulator should have is standard compliance and decent font rendering (and freetype is good-enough).
Lousy engineering will lead to lousy code, especially when the main objective is to show off (engineering is, obviously, not an objective.) Btw, using Rust is not an engineering.
- mmstick 10y agoEverything that can be GPU-accelerated should be GPU-accelerated. The GPU is far more energy efficient, and every bit of offload onto the GPU leads to a decrease in CPU consumption. Terminals can be particularly CPU-heavy when running a chatty program.
- lngnmn 10y agoI hope systemd guys will read this.