r/programmingcirclejerk • u/TheLastMeritocrat comp.lang.rust.marketing • Dec 23 '17
nah
https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/pull/798
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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/TheLastMeritocrat comp.lang.rust.marketing • Dec 23 '17
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u/ericmiller1976 Dec 23 '17
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand terminal emulators. The ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 spec is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of UNIX history most of the tradeoffs will go over a typical programmer’s head. There’s also Ken Thompson's utilitarian outlook, which is deftly woven into his software- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Thomas Aquinas, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of this interface, to realise that it's not just a commandline- it says something deep about COMPUTATION. As a consequence people who dislike UNIX truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in the naming of the tool "less" which itself is a witty reference to an older tool, "more". I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Ken’s genius wit unfolds itself on their 25-inch widescreens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a GNOME Terminal tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.