If you look at the numbers, the % growth in terminal multiplexers in the last hundred years has been absolutely staggering. Way more than just a fad!
(I love tmux)
I make them in a factory. I buy the raw bits at a bulk discount, and then workers assemble them into numbers by hand. Then we export them to people who need manufactured data, like elementary schools and consulting companies in North America.
It’s not super exciting, but it’s a living.
Or, more importantly: does it matter?
Ummm… Do people not realize this is satire? 😅
“satire”
“Humor”
Edit:. Btw who are you asking about? I see one other top-level comment besides yours and no replies to it.
Satire or not, it’s still correct lol. Terminals and terminal emulation need to be destroyed. Modern systems with graphics and windowing systems are not VT100s and that’s a good thing.
Ummm… Nope. You’ll pry my terminal from my cold, dead hands. There’s no faster way to get many system tasks done than the command line.
I use GUIs all day, but there’s almost always at least one terminal open on screen because that’s where the real work gets done.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I agree with you. I’m not talking about text-based interfaces and commands. I just mean the way Unix/POSIX handles “terminals” (devices that accept streams of characters according to a protocol established in the 70s) is an antiquated way of handling simple plain text streams. It made sense back then when there was a need to send commands to dumb terminals in-band with the plaintext but this doesn’t really make sense these days when your “terminal” is actually just a program pretending to be a dumb terminal running inside a window. When was the last time you used job control instead of opening another window?
Or maybe terminal emulation needs to be brought up to speed with modern computing. New terminal specs and all that.
Nothing is better for remote computing and administration than a terminal. It’s far too data data dense for anything to be competitive.
Nothing is better for quick and easy iteration of programming ideas than a quick text output in a terminal.
It doesn’t need to be destroyed, it needs some iteration. It’s an old technology with a lot of cruft.
“is containerization a fad?”
“Is ssh a fad?”
