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While we're at it, can we get rid of staggered keyboards? We don't need to accommodate mechanical linkages from the bottom rows any longer, yet here we are. As
by mandibles 2y ago
While we're at it, can we get rid of staggered keyboards? We don't need to accommodate mechanical linkages from the bottom rows any longer, yet here we are.
As other commenters have pointed out, once conventions and standards have been adopted, there is almost no way of dislodging them. It's a coordination problem. New standards and approaches usually need to be at least a 10x improvement over the status quo in order to be adopted organically.
The same story applies to all areas of human endeavor.
- 9dev 2y agoIm not so sure. We have HTTP3 now, which is binary. We use different image formats than we used to, and switched from horses to cars, too. Why shouldn’t we be able to innovate in this space? Building new walls doesn’t automatically imply tearing old ones down.
- wang_li 2y ago> Building new walls doesn’t automatically imply tearing old ones down. But often in this space they seem to want to do that anyway. I can only imagine that they are attempting to force people to adopt their pet project. There's literally no reason a pair of sequences can't be specified that allows clients to query support for advanced terminal mode and get a response. After the client and the terminal have agreed on advanced mode, switch to a byte stream/command blocks/whatever which allow rich text, graphics, sound, access to UI devices, etc. Whan you're done you've recreated X11, but they can do whatever they like I guess. There's no need to fuck up terminfo along the way though.