[mukel]

It's a Linux-only trick: https://github.com/kt97679/tetris/blob/52dfb3a703e4dd5b37990...

[exabrial]

Ok what on earth is going on there... It's launching a shell but I'm not sure what the stty does

[shakna]

The commandline buffers input by default, because it starts in "cooked" mode.

That line turns off buffering so that keypresses can immediately be read, by putting it into "raw" mode.

[exabrial]

excellent! thank you