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by zokier 1317 days ago
> For example, a traditional terminal has no concept of command input/output, which means that it can't suggest a next command to run based on the output of the previous command.

Neither does wayland or whatever. Point being that you can treat terminals as dumb character cell grid display with slightly wonky input mechanism and get quite far ignoring/working around all the traditional line-oriented stuff.