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New comment by zadjii in "Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)"

zadjii — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:01:26 +0000

You're most welcome! Working on it to help serve the whole developer ecosystem has been the delight of my career :)

New comment by zadjii in "The terminal of the future"

zadjii — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:58:42 +0000

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...

New comment by zadjii in "Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)"

zadjii — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:17:22 +0000

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-...

New comment by zadjii in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

zadjii — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 03:34:09 +0000

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

New comment by zadjii in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

zadjii — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:16:16 +0000

FWIW The definitive thread on "images in terminals" is probably found in these threads:

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

New comment by zadjii in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

zadjii — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:33:34 +0000

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?

New comment by zadjii in "Email immutability matters more in a world with AI"

zadjii — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:36:07 +0000

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

New comment by zadjii in "Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu"

zadjii — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:25:32 +0000

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

New comment by zadjii in "Edit is now open source"

zadjii — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:46:09 +0000

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.

New comment by zadjii in "PowerToys Command Palette Utility"

zadjii — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:15:31 +0000

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

New comment by zadjii in "The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images"

zadjii — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:23:39 +0000

That is _technically_ correct (the best kind). There's some plumbing between conhost and Terminal we need to clean up before we can add it to Terminal too. We've got a branch ready, we've just got to merge a whole stack of PRs first before we can get there.

New comment by zadjii in "The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images"

zadjii — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:21:36 +0000

Has been for like, five years now ;)

New comment by zadjii in "The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images"

zadjii — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:20:49 +0000

We shipped it (the Terminal) with the first versions of Windows 11. I don't think the "default terminal" feature defaulted to the new Terminal in the first win11 builds, but it should now. And you can always pick whichever terminal you want as the default terminal

New comment by zadjii in "The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images"

zadjii — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:18:47 +0000

Conhost and Terminal share quite a lot of code in fact. The text buffer, the renderer, the VT sequence parser - all that's the same codebase. That allows bugfixes and improvements to the the Terminal to also flow back to the vintage console (for people who still use that)

The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

zadjii — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:11:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/17421

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847204

Points: 53

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New comment by zadjii in "Bob_cassette_rewinder"

zadjii — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:58:54 +0000

This is a great write up, thanks for sharing. I had never heard of these before, and would usually be totally against a subscription based product like that. But the idea of totally bypassing their "drm" for 1/60th the cost? Much more intriguing

New comment by zadjii in "Sudo for Windows"

zadjii — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:34:47 +0000

Thanks :)

I'd say waking up today to all this... negativity? was kinda a bummer. We've been working hard on something that people (myself included) have been asking for _for years_.

Like, obviously, it's not perfect out of the gate. That's fine! It was a haul enough to ship this in any form. Now that it's out there, we can make more and more improvements. One step at a time.

Sometimes, I just need a break from the internet I guess.

New comment by zadjii in "Sudo for Windows"

zadjii — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:29:17 +0000

Happy to have the feedback! Most of those I've already fixed internally, there's just a 3-4 week delay between me checking in, and it flowing to Insiders.

For the other few things I missed: Very happy for the feedback! I've filed bugs and those'll be the first things I look at come Monday morning.

New comment by zadjii in "Sudo for Windows"

zadjii — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 03:34:08 +0000

There are security implications for running elevated processes connected to unelevated console/terminal windows. "New window" mode avoids those security concerns. A secure-by-default posture seemed prudent.

New comment by zadjii in "Sudo for Windows"

zadjii — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 03:26:39 +0000

I live by a one step at a time philosophy. It's better to make some incremental progress here, now, and open the door for future progress in this space too. Just like the Terminal - what we're putting out here in the first versions is just the first thing we feel comfortable with people using. We've got lots of ideas for more things to add, just, one step at a time :)