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There are so many modern, compact, versatile Xterm compatible terminal emulators that can be aliased. Is there any serious reason in 2022 to still be distributi
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
There are so many modern, compact, versatile Xterm compatible terminal
emulators that can be aliased. Is there any serious reason in 2022 to
still be distributing instead of dragging it out behind the woodshed
with a shovel.
- somat 4y agoThere is a quote. Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long? -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 Well, we have our cathedrals in programing, only we as as software engineers tend to be barbarians and call them "legacy code" or "obsolete systems" or "needs to be torn down and replaced with something new". Think of when people do this to actual cathedrals. I like xterm, use it daily, I think Thomas Dickey is a pretty great guy for his role in maintaining the program. https://www.invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html https://www.invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html
- nonrandomstring 4y agoNow I feel deservably bad. Xterm is is also part of my daily go-tos. But then I look through apt or yum and see so many fresh faced usurpers, many written in modern languages... and also hear the same laments that Xterm is "unmaintainable". I didn't think of it as someone's cathedral. I'll put the shovel down. ;)
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