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by usrbinbash 1645 days ago
And what exactly is the use case for this?

If I want to work with images, animations, etc. I use a GUI library. These in turn already use hardware accelerated rendering.

And I already have powerful, optimized, tested, reliable software that enables me to work with terminal and GUI functionality side by side; the DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT.
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southerntofu 1645 days ago
> And what exactly is the use case for this?

Terminal User Interfaces. There's technically no reason i can't check out an image in a folder when i'm browsing on an SSH session (yes i know i can rsync/scp && xdg-open but it's not exactly as fast to type as viu [0].

> powerful, optimized, tested, reliable software that enables me to work with terminal and GUI functionality side by side

If you have tested and reliable desktop environments to recommend, i'm all ears. All the ones i've tried over the years have their own quirks and memory leaks (yes, that includes GNOME and KDE).

But as you said, both approaches are complementary. I'm glad notcurses exists and works via graceful degradation, so people with a modern terminal can get the best while others can still get a featureful ncurses-like experience.

[0] https://github.com/atanunq/viu

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filmor 1645 days ago
Please be aware that all uppercase comes across as quite aggressive.

Writing a lot of data to a terminal can happen accidentally or by having an application running that throws out a burst of log messages. In both cases, you'll want to have your terminal to be responsive again as soon as possible and you want it to be light on your cpu s.t. it doesn't interrupt other applications.

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usrbinbash 1645 days ago
> In both cases, you'll want to have your terminal to be responsive again as soon as possible.

My terminal emulator doesn't become unresponsive just because the renderer cannot keep up. It still processes input, so if I accidentially

    cat some-linux-distro-1of4.iso
...I can still Ctrl-C it and stop the process.

> it doesn't interrupt other applications.

It can't do that anyway in an environment that does preemptive multitasking.

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