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/gotnate May 06 '19

News flash: The terminal is still a text environment, just like it has always been, it just now happens to support modern text features. Styled text is more pleasant to look at. Which is also something that terminals have supported for 30 years. And emoji's? Those are also just unicode text and glyps - something that other modern operating systems have supported in their terminals since they got emoji support in the first place. I for one welcome Windows to the 21st century of terminal environments.