Thanks for the work on WT, it was really a massive step up I did not expect after all of these years.
You're most welcome! Working on it to help serve the whole developer ecosystem has been the delight of my career :)
Readit Newszadjii commented on Terminal Latency on Windows (2024) chadaustin.me/2024/02/win... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
Y'know, I spent a week investigating doing something similar with the Windows Terminal about 18 months ago: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16495#issuecomm...
There's even more under the "Updates archive" expando in that post.
It was a pretty compelling prototype. But after I played with Polyglot Notebooks[1], I pretty much just abandoned that experiment. There's a _lot_ of UI that needs to be written to build a notebook-like experience. But the Polyglot notebooks took care of that by just converting the commandline backend to a jupyter kernel.
I've been writing more and more script-like experiments in those ever since. Just seems so much more natural to have a big-ol doc full of notes, that just so happens to also have play buttons to Do The Thing.
[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...
zadjii commented on Terminal Latency on Windows (2024) chadaustin.me/2024/02/win... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
Notably this article was written based on Windows Terminal 1.18. That was before WT 1.22, which included this PR: [^1] which roughly doubled the terminal's throughput. That combined with a couple of other PRs in 1.22 made some scenarios up to _16x_ faster[^2]
[^1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/17510
[^2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
zadjii commented on State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions jeffquast.com/post/state-... · Posted by u/SG-
windows terminal is awesome and i wish it shipped with windows by default instead of having to go to the store and install it. everyone who uses it has only good things to say, and it is updated regularly by Microsoft.
It's shipped with Windows since Windows 11. Updates come via the Store (since that's a lot faster than OS updates), but it's definitely preinstalled these days
zadjii commented on State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions jeffquast.com/post/state-... · Posted by u/SG-
More than two, e.g. there’s also the Inline Images Protocol supported by iTerm2 and WezTerm.
Kovid documented his rationale at some length here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/33
FWIW The definitive thread on "images in terminals" is probably found in these threads:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/...
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/...
there's lengthy discussion from just about everyone at this point in those threads, about why images in terminals is Hard
zadjii commented on State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions jeffquast.com/post/state-... · Posted by u/SG-
No love for Windows Terminal? I know that linux has a much richer terminal ecosystem, but WT ranks a lot higher than a wide breadth of terminal emulators on linux now. Could anyone have imagined that 10 years ago?
zadjii commented on Email immutability matters more in a world with AI fastmail.com/blog/not-wri... · Posted by u/brongondwana
Microsoft has this now too with Loop components. If you put any text content around it that doesn't change, but the "Loop" component is a live doc and will update on the email client's end of the remote doc changes.
Low key: Loop is actually great. I think it's the first thing I've used that's captured the dream of what Google Wave wanted to be
zadjii commented on Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/m... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
I wish any of the supplied terminals and shells for Windows were even halfway decent.
At first I tried really hard to use these tools, since my work laptop runs Windows, but gradually I accepted that no, even the experienced users aren't doing any better, these tools are just worse than the ones I was used to, and so I use a Unix shell and terminals designed to run those shells instead.
There were Windows/ Microsoft tools where I found things to like. C# is at least arguably a better Java for example. But a lot of the things I expected to find had benefits were just disappointing.
What complaints do you have with the Windows Terminal specifically? I can get having issues with CMD or PowerShell - they're very non-unix-y. But WT itself is probably one of the most feature-complete terminal emulators out there these days. I'd love to know what you think it's missing
They could've just shipped YEdit, which is open source: http://www.malsmith.net/edit/ but there is NIH syndrome in MS.
Yedit actually was written by a Microsoft employee :P
It had some problems however with handling unicode (iirc). Basically, shipping yedit would have required a huge re-write of its underlying text buffer. In the end the discussions we had with Malcom concluded that just writing a new one was probably easier and more maintainable in the long run.
zadjii commented on PowerToys Command Palette Utility learn.microsoft.com/en-us... · Posted by u/sangeeth96
If one watches the product-video, one might see Hackernews featuring. I was surprised :)
who would have guessed that we're all lurkers here too :P Hacker News isn't just for linux stans - Windows devs like to hang out here too