The New Windows Terminal

'What a crazy year 2019 has been for the Windows command line!'

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REDMOND (Rixstep) — One of Microsoft's managers pins a tweet with this.



Why??? (Seriously.)

There's a followup by the way.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/.../happy-holidays-from-the-windows-terminal-team/

Again: why?

Oh the feature list.

• Multiple tabs. Like any document-based app on macOS.
• Beautiful text. It's still their funky 'Terminal' font from 1899.
• Settings and configurability. Really?
• 'Wait... did you say open source?'

Here's a kicker:

'Okay, but what about contributing to an existing open source terminal/app project instead?'

Read the piece to find out about their spin.

Back to the clip. Do check the screens in there.

1. Anyone using a backslash as a path component separator should be taken offline permanently.
2. 'char** argv' will pass, but it's sloppy, lame, and not 100% syntactically accurate.
3. There's an illegal character on line 2.
4. Where is 'value' declared? And '= =' is not a true operator.

And so forth.

Then again, this was probably made for the diversity crowd.

The politics of no expectations.

# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.

/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh

The time's long gone that a backslashing, eminently and eternally vulnerable Windows made any sense. We don't want to hear how good you are at patching vulnerabilities - you've certainly had more practice than anyone else in the industry. If Upton Sinclair were alive today, he'd have another topic for his most famous book.

'What a crazy year 2019 has been for the Windows command line!'
 - Kayla Cinnamon

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