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ggerganov / imtui

ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface C++ Library
https://imtui.ggerganov.com
MIT License
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It would be so nice #37

Closed extrowerk closed 2 years ago

extrowerk commented 2 years ago

If we could say farewell to the 70's. Why we are still fixated to the idea that everything is a tty and we need to use ANSI escape codes to hack around the fact the 70's is over and you don't have a line-printer in your living room? Why nobody (literally, nobody) attempts to make any real changes, like you know, to create hi-res modern command-line (ow, you can't fallback then to runlevel1 to run our superduper (TM) program! You would actively exclude users!!!! NONONO). This is all bullsit, to ride on the existing terminal, and you know what, the silly thing is even the terminal emulators doing things differently, so at the end of the day libs like this and the retarded ncurses will be full of hack and cases and still it will provide some features which won't be supported by all term emulators. But noooooo, we can't do anything new, we have to sit in this swamp created by made-up scientists in the 70's, not because they were evil or something, but because they were employed by telecommunication. But no, linux, unis, bsd, mac and everybody thinks nooo, U CANT TOUCH THIS!! You know what? I would like to beat everybody up who is responsible for the sorry state of the modern personal computing, and for the available operating systems. There was nice ideas, but NOOOO, we had to settle down with the worst possible option. unix, were we bolt and glue layers above layers and above layer.

Fck you for continuing this. But really. Fuck you! Your are ALSO the reason why we can't have nice things.

Now go and close this ticket without spending any minute to think about why the "Beat up a programmer, he will know why he got it" movement exist and why they beat up programmers.

So again: fuck you.

bew commented 2 years ago

Nice, thank you for suggesting an alternative solution :smile: Anyway, you say no-one do anything interesting and new, do you know notcurses, it can do crazy things with modern terminal emulators :D cf: https://youtu.be/dcjkezf1ARY?t=16

extrowerk commented 2 years ago

I meant to throw out the whole terminal emulator, and now you recommends me a different something to run in the exact same emulator? Do you get now why am I utterly disgusted by programmers?

ggerganov commented 2 years ago

I think I understand your point - to some extend I agree, but I do think it's a bit exaggerated. Thanks for the opinion - closing this for now.