Despite their questionable utility, terminal multiplexers have skyrocketed to fame in the tech world over the last decade.
    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Satire or not, it’s still correct lol. Terminals and terminal emulation need to be destroyed. Modern systems with graphics and windowing systems are not VT100s and that’s a good thing.

      • azimir@lemmy.ml
        9·
        1 year ago

        Ummm… Nope. You’ll pry my terminal from my cold, dead hands. There’s no faster way to get many system tasks done than the command line.

        I use GUIs all day, but there’s almost always at least one terminal open on screen because that’s where the real work gets done.

        • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Sorry, I should have been more clear. I agree with you. I’m not talking about text-based interfaces and commands. I just mean the way Unix/POSIX handles “terminals” (devices that accept streams of characters according to a protocol established in the 70s) is an antiquated way of handling simple plain text streams. It made sense back then when there was a need to send commands to dumb terminals in-band with the plaintext but this doesn’t really make sense these days when your “terminal” is actually just a program pretending to be a dumb terminal running inside a window. When was the last time you used job control instead of opening another window?

      • Noodlez@programming.dev
        4·
        1 year ago

        Or maybe terminal emulation needs to be brought up to speed with modern computing. New terminal specs and all that.

        Nothing is better for remote computing and administration than a terminal. It’s far too data data dense for anything to be competitive.

        Nothing is better for quick and easy iteration of programming ideas than a quick text output in a terminal.

        It doesn’t need to be destroyed, it needs some iteration. It’s an old technology with a lot of cruft.

        • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Or maybe terminal emulation needs to be brought up to speed with modern computing. New terminal specs and all that.

          Yeah, I agree. I should have been more clear lol. See my other comment.