The Windows console is a bit more sophisticated than the traditional *nix "shuffle text back and forth" approach; the Windows Command Line blog goes into some d

The Windows console is a bit more sophisticated than the traditional *nix "shuffle text back and forth" approach; the Windows Command Line blog goes into some detail here (and in the rest of this series): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-line-inside-the-windows-console/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l... Short version: there is support for ANSI and VT sequences in the Windows console (which relatively recently got substantially expanded), but that's not what it speaks "natively"-- for Win32 console applications, there's a native console API that works by passing IOCTLs back and forth between the app and console driver. (If you're writing a terminal emulator for Windows, you don't necessarily see this-- the new ConPTY mechanism you use to build these as of Windows 10 abstracts away the Windows specifics so you see text and VT sequences just as you would on *nix.)