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by isjamesalive 2038 days ago
TL;DR: What is wrong with the world that software that prints text to the screen has/needs a special project by a megacorp to make it perform/operate acceptably.

But you could say the same thing of browsers.

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It's understandable that a browser has to render a wide variety of audio/visual/3D things.

A terminal on the other hand - it literally has to just print text to a screen and he's right that a bunch of hype and over-engineering of a solution for it is silly.

PCs have been outputting text to screen faster than a human can process for over 60 years now (and bonus: using a lot less resources than today's Windows Console of the month).