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Re:Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular by mukel on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:50AM (#25846389)
It's a Linux-only trick: https://github.com/kt97679/tetris/blob/52dfb3a703e4dd5b37990...
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Re:Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular by exabrial on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:57AM (#25846470)
Ok what on earth is going on there... It's launching a shell but I'm not sure what the stty does
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Re:Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular by shakna on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:34AM (#25846858)
The commandline buffers input by default, because it starts in "cooked" mode.

That line turns off buffering so that keypresses can immediately be read, by putting it into "raw" mode.

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Re:Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular by exabrial on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:49AM (#25847814)
excellent! thank you
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