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Actually, what's really amazing is that the wheel has been reinvented so many times except for terminals. Seriously, make something new that works either with
by olddustytrail 2y ago
Actually, what's really amazing is that the wheel has been reinvented so many times except for terminals.
Seriously, make something new that works either with ssh or wireguatd and cement your name in fame.
- dietr1ch 2y agoThere's a lot of things that could be reworked in much better ways if you drop backwards compatibility and think a bit about usability, but the real problem is the time it takes versus how "just fine" things work once you finally understand how to improve on old tools. To make things worse, tools get much better they get once you start thinking hard about re-implementing things. It seems it takes a lot of hatred to start such a project, and starting is the easy part as it only needs the first 80% of the effort.
- chungy 2y agoThe reason terminal-land is like this, is precisely because the wheel has been reinvented a few hundred times. Basically XKCD 927, perpetually.
- jdiff 2y agoNot really, because backwards compatibility with the most basic terminals has been maintained throughout it all. Instead of fragmentation, what we have is a very inconsistent soup.
- hnlmorg 2y agoSeveral options already exist: - HTTP management interfaces - RPCs such as what’s used in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem - Agent-based configuration management / IaC tools such as Puppet Each has their own strengths and weaknesses. But for all the criticisms people make about the terminal, and many of the complaints are completely justified, it’s often those weird eccentricities that also make the terminal such a powerful interface.
- notsomeuser 2y agospeaking of .. https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-emulation/ https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-e...