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by ripley12 1328 days ago
> If you’re using Windows Terminal, you’re using a sort of predecessor to Powershell (somebody please correct me on this)

Not necessarily. Windows Terminal is just a terminal emulator; you can run any shell in it: cmd.exe, PowerShell, Nushell, bash, fish...
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deafpolygon 1328 days ago
And what a great Terminal emulator it is.
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ripley12 1328 days ago
Agreed; it’s a massive step forward for Windows and the team behind it is great.
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deafpolygon 1328 days ago
It blows my mind that they have a proper team behind WT now (for a while now), and it has already (in my mind) surpassed MacOS Terminal (unchanged for years) and most of Linux Terminal Emulators.

If Microsoft can just get a proper team behind the other tech...

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raydiatian 1328 days ago
Oh shit. I’m thinking of command prompt.
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