> xterm is bloated and unmaintainable (...) It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you will never need. The way these things

> xterm is bloated and unmaintainable (...) It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you will never need. The way these things are usually implemented is that there is an interface of a "terminal" and implementations. As long as implementations do not break the abstraction and do not require modifications in the interface and other parts of code these implementations do not decrease internal software quality. They only cause bloatedness in terms of size of source code files which doesn't matter much. I read something similar on Neovim's site, that they removed support of obsoleted architectures. And as an opposing example it seems that Linux kernel ships with drivers for very old devices and doesn't have plans for removing them. Note that I don't know if in xterm's or vim's case implementations for obsolete subsystems cause real damage or only increase code size. And when I was choosing a terminal implementation, I mostly benchmarked scrolling performance and looked at font rendering quality and xterm won. It is also actively maintained outside of Xorg [0]. [0] http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html