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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by atoav on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:19AM (#29390059)
It has, if the thing you are showing fits the media. If you show the different flags of ls without explaination you would be better of just showing me the printout of ls -h

If you are showing off some beautiful TLI, an interactive prompt or ascii animations, this is the perfect tool.

As someone who works in film: film also doesn't lend itself to everything. Certain internal observations that work great in literature would be unwatchable on film etc.

Or to take it to the extreme: you don't expect the overview of an database to be experimental performance video art.

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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by ReleaseCandidat on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:33AM (#29390131)
> If you are showing off some beautiful TLI, an interactive prompt or ascii animations, this is the perfect tool.

If you want to just show something off, a GIF (or real video) is the answer.

The defining feature of asciinema is that you can copy the text out of the animation. Which is actually not that useful most of the time, because you can't search for text in asciinema (AFAIK?) like you can in, well, documentation.

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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by uasi on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:31AM (#29390435)
> a GIF (or real video) is the answer.

Why so? You can't pause or seek GIFs. GIFs and video files are usually several times larger than asciinema recordings of the same content. And you can't copy text out of them when it is useful.

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