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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by themk on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:41PM (#27044260)
Googles hterm also supports the iTerm2 protocol. Can be good for embedding a terminal in a slideshow presentation.

If your language has a REPL with appropriate control over the display of objects you can get a pretty great experience. I used it to get familiar with Haskell's diagrams and JuicyPixel libraries and it was great[0].

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/search?terms=iterm-show

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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by kzrdude on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:00AM (#27048810)
Yes, I'm looking for something that can display plots like a jupyter notebook could so the low resolution solutions don't really cut it. Maybe it's good as a fallback, though..
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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by themk on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:55AM (#27072698)
This is using the iTerm2 protocol from the REPL. So it's high resolution. For example all the plots in this Haskell tutorial [0] can be plotted in your terminal from the REPL while you are developing and the appear as they do in the PDF.

[0] https://lancelet.github.io/space-workshop/notes.pdf

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