Re:The Dawn of a New Command Line Interface (2017)
by hnlmorg on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:46AM
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I disagree. The reason it doesn't work is because:
- there are so many different standards that terminal emulators adhere to that it makes it practically impossible to write anything that works reliably
- and you need backwards compatibility which means you can't easily break away and create a new CLI framework designed to progress CLIs into the next century.
The fact that ncurses and other terminal UIs have been so prevalent demonstrates that "visual distraction" is sometimes beneficial in a terminal. So much so that some people's tmux sessions could be mistaken for tiling window managers. But unfortunately the terminal is still ostensibly the same 1960s protocol.
- there are so many different standards that terminal emulators adhere to that it makes it practically impossible to write anything that works reliably
- and you need backwards compatibility which means you can't easily break away and create a new CLI framework designed to progress CLIs into the next century.
The fact that ncurses and other terminal UIs have been so prevalent demonstrates that "visual distraction" is sometimes beneficial in a terminal. So much so that some people's tmux sessions could be mistaken for tiling window managers. But unfortunately the terminal is still ostensibly the same 1960s protocol.