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like displaying a series of characters on the screen - need to run 1000x more CPU instructions than yesterday's? Because the users want those characters displa
by dagw 4y ago
like displaying a series of characters on the screen - need to run 1000x more CPU instructions than yesterday's?
Because the users want those characters displayed in the font, size and colour of their choosing at a very high dpi, anti-aliased, in a semi-translucent terminal. They might also want the text parsed in real time so that it can be coloured, formatted and checked for spelling and grammar.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoOther than the high dpi you could do that in 1995 microsoft word.
- moffkalast 4y agoAnd because the programmers want to write it in an interpreted virtual machine ran language with dynamic typing.
- dagw 4y agoTrue, that as well.
- bzzzt 4y agoDon't forget they want full Unicode support with all the complicated layout and composition rules.