<story><title>State of the Terminal</title><url>https://gpanders.com/blog/state-of-the-terminal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eminence32</author><text>A quick off-the-cuff remark based solely on the title: in 2024, I think the state of the terminal has never been better, in large part to Microsoft making a high quality terminal easily available to everyone on Windows [1]&lt;p&gt;As an application author, I love being able to assume that all major platforms have a good terminal and that my favorite terminal rendering libraries should Just Work on all of them&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;microsoft&amp;#x2F;terminal&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;microsoft&amp;#x2F;terminal&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eej71</author><text>I mainly use microsoft terminal now just beacuse it did a better job handling more of the font decorations (italic was one that I recall). My one gripe though is that it seems like microsoft terminal is still kind of slow at scrolling. If I accidentally grep for something that spews a lot to the screen, terminal is just plain hung up a bit. And for many of us - but not everyone? - control-space in emacs is just kind of broken. Long standing open issue for that one.</text></comment>
<story><title>State of the Terminal</title><url>https://gpanders.com/blog/state-of-the-terminal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eminence32</author><text>A quick off-the-cuff remark based solely on the title: in 2024, I think the state of the terminal has never been better, in large part to Microsoft making a high quality terminal easily available to everyone on Windows [1]&lt;p&gt;As an application author, I love being able to assume that all major platforms have a good terminal and that my favorite terminal rendering libraries should Just Work on all of them&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;microsoft&amp;#x2F;terminal&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;microsoft&amp;#x2F;terminal&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Longhanks</author><text>True, but no matter the terminal, you still have to deal with either cmd or PowerShell (and its horrendous startup time), &amp;quot;active code pages&amp;quot;, and the fact that you cannot write UTF-8 to stdout without it getting messy - you need WriteConsoleW and&amp;#x2F;or SetConsoleOutputCP but that affects the whole environment, ... cli on Windows was and is painful.</text></comment>