The terminal, the TTY, and the shell
17 points by j11g
17 points by j11g
This kind of thing has "worked pretty well," I guess, but I'm always wondering how computing could advance if even just this little part of things operated under a completely different paradigm.
One thing aspect of the rise of LLM-based coding that frustrates me is that it will further solidify these kinds of patterns, because that is all that these systems know about. It's going to be Unix forever (and yes, I know we were sort of already on that track, but AI development will further solidify it).
Arcan seems interesting though!
I'm reading a book (Exploring the Unix System) published in the eighties. I'm now at a chapter titled "The Old Shell Game." From what I'm seeing, even just a few years in its infancy (!) the conventions underpinning terminals were seen as a little old-school :)
I enjoyed this Lobsters submission though. To bring about change we have to interrogate the status quo, which only comes from a thorough understanding.