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You've got it backwards. This is the reality where UNIX (et al.) terminals were reinvented, throughout the 1980s as I said. This is the real problem, people g
by JdeBP 7y ago
You've got it backwards. This is the reality where UNIX (et al.) terminals were reinvented, throughout the 1980s as I said. This is the real problem, people going around talking of making a "better terminal", and when pressed talking about things that the world actually did make better, decades ago, and treating as speculative I/O paradigms that demonstrably exist today.
- hnlmorg 7y agoI know full well terminals have been "reinvented" but, and as I've already said to you in that very post you're replying to, solving these problems isn't the hard part. It's getting people to migrate to it. The simple fact is UNIX nor Linux doesn't adopt any of those designs you've been discussing and this conversation is specifically about the POSIX command lines. So you can argue all you like about how x does y better but it doesn't mean shit if nobody can actually use x. I've been doing this for 30+ years. I've written my own terminal emulators and UNIX shells. You're not the only nerd on here so take a step back and listen to the points people are making before assuming they need to be re-educated :)