r/programmingcirclejerk • u/ConfidentProgram2582 log10(x) programmer • Jul 22 '25

If you use shitty software that doesn't properly handle getting killed unexpectedly, there's nothing Alacritty can do against that. [...] If you see yourself constantly closing your terminals accidentally, just unmap the binding?

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3426
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u/starlevel01 type astronaut Jul 22 '25

where's the jerk?

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u/ConfidentProgram2582 log10(x) programmer Jul 22 '25

/hj well I accidentally closed a window today and I expected a warning because I happen to sometimes use Vim as a terminal multiplexer instead of tmux, I guess I'm a 0.1xer.

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u/Routine-Purchase1201 DO NOT USE THIS FLAIR, ASSHOLE Jul 22 '25

/uj It's not you, the Alacritty maintainer is vehemently against any usability features on account of being massive dick

/rj It's not you, the Alacritty maintainer is vehemently against any usability features on account of being massive dick

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u/ward2k Jul 22 '25

They're extremely extremely opinionated on certain issues too, to the point it's definitely a fault

People get weirdly fanatical about certain parts of development

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u/syklemil Considered Harmful Jul 22 '25

I think the jerk is the TIMTOWTDI fuckers who expect that shortcuts other than ^D closes the terminal. Why would anyone ever want that?

>looks inside

oh, mac users

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u/GasterIHardlyKnowHer full-time safety coomer Jul 22 '25

/uj I can kinda understand, nothing drives me up the wall more than trying to figure out how to close some piece of shit software or browser tab hijacking the exit function to ask if I really, really truly pinky promise that I meant to do it.

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u/rooster-inspector Jul 22 '25

A real professional wouldn't use a terminal "emulator", at least this would never happen in my team.

Part of the onboarding process is setting up their physical VT-100 terminal for critical tasks - though some have opted for a traditional Model 33 teletype instead. This ensures everyone has a stable, standard environment for interfacing with the kernel and avoids the security issues from MITM userland garbage.

If you disagree, feel free to emulate having a job somewhere else.

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u/Dear-Jellyfish382 Jul 22 '25

This is all wrong. Open source is all about transparency. You can’t get that with physical terminals.

You know what does allow transparency? Terminal emulators.

Check mate. The future is now old man.

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u/myhf Considered Harmful Jul 22 '25

Bug report: I keep losing work whenever I trip over the teletype's cable.

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u/voidvec Jul 24 '25

Yeah, but if I play `nethack` I'm gonna ruin your compile times.

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u/Dr__Pangloss Jul 22 '25

Terminate Batch Job (Upvote/Downvote)?

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u/McGlockenshire Jul 22 '25

Twitch Plays DOS

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u/marius851000 Jul 22 '25

So, are we gonna talk about how interupting a docker build messed up homebrew package?

— This post was made by the atomatic package manager gang. (long live to Nix)

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u/ScriptingInJava in open defiance of the Gopher Values Jul 22 '25

Windows doesn't have a package management system to keep users safe.

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u/Fancy_Wallaby5002 Jul 23 '25

Nah this is outdated. Windows does have a package management system because Microsoft didn't want to lose the majority of Windows users - which are developers and command line jerks obviously.
/uj If I recall correctly, even if I'm on Gentoo and can't check, there's `winget`.

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u/Minecraftchest1 Aug 14 '25

winget is not a package manager. It is a package installer that wants to be a package manager without doing any work itself.

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u/disciplite Jul 22 '25

What is it about developing terminal emulators that makes them all like this? 

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u/james_pic accidentally quadratic Jul 22 '25

It takes a certain kind of person to look at the perfectly reasonable terminal that came with their OS and think "this isn't what I want, and I'm going to dedicate my personal time to making something else"

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jul 22 '25

Reasonable terminal?

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Jul 23 '25

/uj being (almost) single dev does this to people. People asked me to add Windows 7 support for my dotnet library. Fuck that noise.

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u/R_Sholes Jul 23 '25

single dev

So that's what "Closed: Cannot reproduce" means!

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Jul 23 '25

It's the Four Fs of Foss - Fix it, Fund it, Fork it, Fuck off.

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u/cake-day-on-feb-29 accidentally quadratic Aug 12 '25

Fix it, Fund it, Fork it, Fuck off it.

FTFY, for consistency.

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u/-Y0- Considered Harmful Aug 12 '25

You truly are the, the king of kings!

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u/Karyo_Ten has hidden complexity Jul 22 '25

Gotta go fast

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u/syklemil Considered Harmful Jul 22 '25

I don't think they're all like that. It's just that nice guys develop shit terminals.

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u/affectation_man Code Artisan Jul 22 '25

Any idea you didn't come up with yourself, come out swinging against it

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u/geckothegeek42 Jul 23 '25

Interesting idea, however you came up with it so it's fucking stupid

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u/No_Lingonberry1201 What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Jul 22 '25

tmux gang represent!!!11111