I like this. No reason the terminal should only support text. Data science notebooks show one way the terminal can evolve. Lots of interesting stuff happening in this space, with Kitty probably being the most aggressive innovator here [1]. I'm not sure there is an overall vision, though.

[1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/protocol-extensions/

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bcjdjsndon an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Terry A Davis already did this. It was as crazy then as it is now

	▲	Wololooo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Obligatory Temple OS unhinged video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48KzPa42_o Joking apart, the whole thing was both an exercise in madness and genius. Sometimes I wonder what he would have done if he had not gone crazy. We will never know...

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alias_neo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder if something like this could work for thumbnails in the terminal; I prefer to browse my filesystem from a terminal rather than the point and click file manager typically, and it would be really useful if I could have a grid-style `ls` with terminal based renders of the 3d models (thinking STL/STEP, 3D printing) in that directory. Bonus points if I could preview/rotate the model to inspect it.

	▲	noelwelsh 9 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		eza [1] is a step in that direction. It lacks the interactivity, however. [1]: github.com/eza-community/eza
	▲	calvinmorrison 12 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You can do this with thumbnails using sixels already

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the_other an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mix this 3d graphics, with data science notebooks, with local LLMs, and perhaps an integrated coding harness, with visibility over your personal data and you’d have something absurdly good.

This might overtake “a haiku+macOS mashup” as my idealised computing future.

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miah_ 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

At that point you've re-invented emacs.

	▲	mghackerlady 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming states that any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

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sublinear 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> push the state of terminal emulators forward

What's overlooked here are the insane political and economic forces that were required to get anywhere close to the (sort of!) consistent implementation of plain text we have today. These projects try to piggyback off that success yet only contribute back harm. We have standards for a reason.

I'm not saying people can't have fun, but don't try to start a cyberpunk-inspired revolution and then blame the side effects of groupthink and software rot on everyone else when it goes sideways.