Re:Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust
by zadjii on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @05:15PM
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As it turns out, the thing Muratori suggested absolutely _didn't_ work for a large variety of edge cases. That was experimented with for a couple releases before being even _more_ substantially rewritten: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/14959
I hate that what was definitely intended as a joke originally turned into this massive miscommunication and flame war. Admittedly tone is hard to convey on the internet, and italics is no replacement for a good old fashioned ":P". But this could have been a good place for everyone to work together, rather than flame one another.
It's certainly an experience that everyone can learn from.
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
It really highlighted how crappy software gets written in large corporations. They told him rendering monospaced fonts on the GPU would involve a multi year PHD research project.
Apparently they then went on to infiltrate his discord server so they could ask questions. Then write up a blog post calling the change "trivial".
https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1522471966929653761