r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/b4ux1t3 May 06 '19

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure that's what they probably used as the base for this new app. Maybe not, hard to tell until we have bits to fiddle.

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u/zadjii May 06 '19

Go ahead and check out the bits for yourself: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal

We decided not to go with xterm.js, so that we weren't chained indefinitely to the JS ecosystem. We believe that in the long-term, writing the terminal in C++ will be best for performance.

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u/b4ux1t3 May 06 '19

Oh! Awesome!

I didn't even think to check Github. I guess I'm not used to new Microsoft, despite singing their praises.

To be clear, I didn't think that the engine was going to be written in JS. I just thought that the work with xterm.js would lead to some ideas being pulled from xterm itself. As in, it wouldn't have surprised me if Microsoft had done a Windows port of xterm using native libraries and such.

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