[anthk]

Unix is not about a terminal, that the obsolete medium, kinda like preaching about DOS PC with 386's... and CGA video cards.

9front copes with actual text throwing the terminal as a different tool to run legacy stuff in such as SSH or some small ANSI C tools either with the APE compat layer or NPE binding ANSI C code to Plan9 native functins.

You can resize windows with shells under 9front freely, no more SIGWINCH. No more broken cuts and pastes while running a terminal multiplexer. No control code risks executing potential malware.

[wredcoll]

Sure, I get the theory, so why doesn't exist? Where's my modern text/command based interface?

[anthk]

In 9front, a decades old fork of Plan9. It's basically more Unix than Unix itself, by expanding the 'everything it's a file motto' and now for real and leaving out useless VT220 emulators (and any TTY/serial emulating connections) for legacy stuff such as the 'vt' emulator itself running under a graphical window and, for instance, when running SSH against Unix machines sending you a PTY plus a shell.