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Asookayesterday at 5:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

I wonder how long until terminals support half of the XWindows protocol (as some weird combination of Markdown, HTML and escape codes, most probably). This is not a diss, I would actually be pretty happy with a pared-down GUI protocol in the terminal with extensive Unicode support.


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sphyesterday at 5:54 PM

2052: the whole of computing is VT100-compatible Javascript CLI applications running on a Javascript port of the Linux kernel, within a tab of Chromium.

This is the actual end game of the worse is better philosophy.

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temp0826yesterday at 7:07 PM

There is an in-terminal wayland compositor (or two?) out there, fwiw.

Edit- one example https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything

dmdyesterday at 8:45 PM

well iTerm2 now has a #&*%( web browser built in...

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