> Why? Because I can.

Always the best reason.

I find I have to specify this for some of these projects, because rewriting basic stuff like this often has a lot of people asking what the point is...

But I love small rewrites (this is <3k lines of code for the terminal itself; the font renderer is 600-700 lines or so; the X11 bindings a bit larger) as a means to explore what is really actually needed for the things I do...