I love text, and I love IPC. I hate what 1970s terminal culture does to both. Why can’t we have modern text-driven interfaces* that are both parsimonious and

I love text, and I love IPC. I hate what 1970s terminal culture does to both. Why can’t we have modern text-driven interfaces* that are both parsimonious and elegant? The mighty Knuth gave us TeX 40 years ago, and our hardware has long since passed the point where doing the job right demands a significant number of cycles (even with the clattery mess that is Unicode standard), so there really isn’t any excuse for such awful regressive primitivism now. Because I don’t care that OP’s workflow works well for OP; I care about workflows that work better. For everyone. /cynical idealist -- * Traditionally “text-driven interface” means keyboard-driven, but if you aren’t paying attention to the rise of spoken words then you’re missing the next great opportunity to open up computing to all 8Bn of your fellow humans.