austdi

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   by austdi 7y ago

   Development started in the late 1980s and continued through the early 1990s, I may have been slightly hyperbolic.
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   by austdi 7y ago

   I would say that emoji support takes precedence, because emoji support implies support for UTF-16 surrogate pairs. Originally the console could only support UCS-2 which could not represent all CJK characters. Adding surrogate pair support b
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   by austdi 7y ago

   The team is incredibly small compared to other teams. 2-4 devs at a time, roughly a tenth of those on powershell. Much of the difficulty of the project came from the lack of resources yes, but also the age of the codebase. It was originally
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   by austdi 7y ago

   With respect, emoji support and tabs were the most requested features for years according to the uservoice page that tracked the public feature requests. I no longer work on the project but that team is filled with some of the most passiona