> You can now create a terminal in ~1,500 lines of C that has more features and better performance than just about any terminal that existed in 2025, and most today in 2026.5 And thanks to the rich ecosystem of language bindings, you can do this in every major programming language. You get this for free. For almost no effort. You can just do it.

can i just get you people to slow down a bit and explain: why are you guys building your own terminal? whats the deep pain here?

(i'm not at all being skeptical, i respect you guys enough to understand that there's something here I don't get and it's my skill issue, so I am trying to learn)

I think the point isn't that everyone should create their own standalone terminal, but apps that embed terminals (like IDEs, cloud portals etc) can make much better integrated terminals with less code.

It's like a better alternative to xterm.js, and better than existing terminal emulator libraries.

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