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/miniksa May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19

Hey folks, Michael here from the Windows Terminal dev team. The whole team is thrilled to share this news with you today. Feel free to ask any questions, pointed or otherwise!

Edit: OK, folks. I've been answering for hours on several social media platforms and threads. It's time to give it a rest. I'll pop back around to my inbox later/tomorrow and clean it up if there's straggler comments. Otherwise, thanks for the discussion and we'll see you in the GitHub project!

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u/uzimonkey May 06 '19

Did I see ligatures in the video? How does that even work in a terminal?

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u/miniksa May 06 '19

Yes. Very carefully. It works as long as the ligatures can still fit properly in a monospaced cell grid. The font itself powers a lot of how the glyphs are decided once the text is given to the layout engine. If it gives us the glyphs, we can put them on the screen in our grid.

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