Heh, recently I was looking up things about terminal graphics and came upon: github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/8389

And DHowett’s reply was pretty dismissive. Guess that was the tip of the iceberg.

But this anecdote is a good ‘corp’ versus ‘open source’ anecdote. There’s simply no way a business with project management would even think about optimizing performance of a terminal emulator that seems to vaguely work according to the marketing requirements. What a waste of time, right? My experience with a software development organization is 99% of management work is to rationalize away doing anything.

Meanwhile, open source someone says “screw it, this is crap, I can fix it”.