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It sounds like you're asking for two different things here: cmd.exe is a shell, and that's the guy that's parked. conhost.exe is a terminal, and that's under
by zadjii 8y ago
It sounds like you're asking for two different things here:
cmd.exe is a shell, and that's the guy that's parked.
conhost.exe is a terminal, and that's under active development, though it's slower than something like VsCode, because we can't just go adding features as we see fit, we have a LOT of back compat we still need to support.
Fortunately, conpty will allow for the creation of new terminal applications on Windows. If you're looking for a better shell experience on windows, I can point you to powershell or even [yori](http://www.malsmith.net/yori/ http://www.malsmith.net/yori/), which looks pretty cool
- cryptonector 8y agoI think u/paulie_a is just asking for a better shell. If cmd can't be made better, then make a new one.
- paulie_a 8y agoExactly, I understand there are different underlying concepts and systems to the front end and what it interacts with. It just seem incredible that windows is basically stuck with a windows 95 interface for a shell.
- nailer 8y agoPowershell is open source, the 6.1 preview 4 is nice and fast, and you get real objects with keys rather than scraping for regexs all the time like bash.
- cwyers 8y agoThat's Powershell.