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A wrote a little one in Perl a few years ago. The primary challenges were the same ones you would have with any curses application and annoying input latency. T
by snazz 7y ago
A wrote a little one in Perl a few years ago. The primary challenges were the same ones you would have with any curses application and annoying input latency. The users were also constantly trying to escape to a shell, but I don’t remember any of them succeeding.
If you thought websites were centralized, try a system where every keystroke gets mirrored to the server!
- icedchai 7y agoTo think, interactive curses apps like that used to be the norm. It was much simpler building apps that way, compared to web apps. I rarely used curses when I built my own stuff in the 90's. I generated ANSI escape sequences myself...