Re:The Terminal Escape Sequences Ocean Is Deep and Dark
by oblio on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @07:17AM
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I'm loathe to say this, because every couple of decades or centuries someone does the impossible, but until that happens:
It's impossible. There's too much legacy stuff, it would be like boiling the oceans, and there's both no real glory to be had and no money to be made.
Oh, and for the legacy stuff. Since there is no real API, everyone did as they pleased, for the new protocol/standard/tools to take off they would either have to be amazing and almost completely supersede existing stuff (ultra hard) or to offer backwards compatibility, which the lack of the API would make it a humongous software undertaking. I've been watching what the Oil shell is doing to just extend Bash in a smart way, and the amount of work going into just that is mindboggling.
You'd need a madman (more likely, several) like Lennart Poettering and look at what did, it got him death threats for writing software and getting it adopted.
It's impossible. There's too much legacy stuff, it would be like boiling the oceans, and there's both no real glory to be had and no money to be made.
Oh, and for the legacy stuff. Since there is no real API, everyone did as they pleased, for the new protocol/standard/tools to take off they would either have to be amazing and almost completely supersede existing stuff (ultra hard) or to offer backwards compatibility, which the lack of the API would make it a humongous software undertaking. I've been watching what the Oil shell is doing to just extend Bash in a smart way, and the amount of work going into just that is mindboggling.
You'd need a madman (more likely, several) like Lennart Poettering and look at what did, it got him death threats for writing software and getting it adopted.