[csdvrx]

> But the idea is indeed from 1984 (via Knuth)

Today I Learned :)

> I think some day more of a clean slate could be more flexible or easier to hack on. (Which is, for me, just a hunch— I've never worked on a terminal emulator myself.)

Not really. Please understand the old protocols (ex: sixels) as making you handle a required subset of the problems the new protocols (ex: kitty, etc) will also require you to handle (like storing the bitmap, invalidation, scrollback)

> But even then, I think that 'escape' would still be as much about doing justice to old ideas as being able to let go of old implementation details.

As long as I can get videos and plots along text in my terminal, I don't care if it's old or new: it just enables me to do more :)