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by HideousKojima 1505 days ago
They did, they implemented a crazy fast terminal renderer (that still supports advanced features like right-to-left languages in Unicode, etc.) from scratch in about 3,000 lines of code just to prove their point:

https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm
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zamalek 1505 days ago
Why not just create a PR, instead of a from-scratch grandstanding repo?

This is a situation where tu quoque really doesn't smell like a logical fallacy. There is a lot of fuss about "being right" over "being helpful."

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HideousKojima 1505 days ago
I'm assuming he thought his PR would be rejected, given their reaction to his initial questions about the issue:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

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zamalek 1505 days ago
A closed PR would have been even more damning for Microsoft. Especially given that Casey could have provided apples-apples benchmark results - not, what amounts to, a micro-benchmark.

From my perspective, there are two reasons why someone would build an entire project instead of opening a PR:

* Merely to be able to point and it and say, "see? see? I was right!" How obnoxiously childish.

* Implementing his ideas into a mature/non-greenfields codebase wasn't in-fact "extremely simple."

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db48x 1504 days ago
He simply didn't want to license his modifications under the terms required by Microsoft.
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dogleash 1505 days ago
Probably doesn't want to work for microsoft for free. Microsoft is a 2 trillion dollar company; doing their job for them would be a total chump move.
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