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Is anyone actually looking to use one of these "style over substance" terminals? Sure they look pretty at first glance, but instill significantly more cognitive
by lijok 3y ago
Is anyone actually looking to use one of these "style over substance" terminals? Sure they look pretty at first glance, but instill significantly more cognitive load on the reader to understand what information it's trying to present.
If people are really interested in using terminals like this, is there a business case to be made for incredibly visually-stylish programming languages as well?
- behnamoh 3y agoI don't know. I feel like __some__ additional features in terminal would be nice. Like having the new vscode sticky scroll, incorporating a file manager like ranger into common terminals, being able to display long (CURL) commands in a more structured way (maybe a hierarchical tree that you can traverse), etc. I use Vim on Fish shell but it'd be nice to have Vim baked right in the terminal as well.
- sawka 3y agoWe aren't just doing style (although that's the headline feature). There are real underlying improvements as well by moving terminal/shell state local. Wave also gives universal history, persistent/resumable sessions, and metadata about commands (exit code, duration, cwd, environment, etc.). Lots more is possible (and will be shipped) in the future.