<story><title>Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field</title><url>https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1375484757916672000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>junon</author><text>I maintain chalk and a slew of other TTY related things.&lt;p&gt;Terminal emulators are, far and away, the most archaic computer technology we still use daily.&lt;p&gt;Believe me when I say, it&amp;#x27;s a very hard problem to solve since everyone has subscribed to Unix&amp;#x27;s philosophy of &amp;quot;everything is text&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;As much as I dislike Microsoft&amp;#x27;s philosophies on software, they had the right idea with Powershell. Its execution is just abysmal.&lt;p&gt;Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>st_goliath</author><text>&amp;gt; Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.&lt;p&gt;Bwahaha... is this your first encounter with backwards compatibility?&lt;p&gt;Changing this would be &lt;i&gt;very hard&lt;/i&gt;, but this has &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; to do with somebody embracing some grand philosophy, but with &lt;i&gt;tons&lt;/i&gt; of existing software relying on Unix like systems to, well ... be Unix-like, because that&amp;#x27;s what the software was written for.</text></comment>
<story><title>Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field</title><url>https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1375484757916672000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>junon</author><text>I maintain chalk and a slew of other TTY related things.&lt;p&gt;Terminal emulators are, far and away, the most archaic computer technology we still use daily.&lt;p&gt;Believe me when I say, it&amp;#x27;s a very hard problem to solve since everyone has subscribed to Unix&amp;#x27;s philosophy of &amp;quot;everything is text&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;As much as I dislike Microsoft&amp;#x27;s philosophies on software, they had the right idea with Powershell. Its execution is just abysmal.&lt;p&gt;Expect this stuff to change drastically in the next 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tambourine_man</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve tried many times and in many ways, but text is still the main interface for programers (and even for a lot of end user tasks as well).&lt;p&gt;As long as this interface remains undisputed, &amp;quot;everything is text&amp;quot; is a feature, not a bug. Arguably, one of Unix&amp;#x27;s greatest.</text></comment>