Comment by a1369209993

> > for an experienced programmer a terminal renderer is a fun weekend project and far away from being a multiyear long research undertaking.

> You shouldn't automatically assume something is actually bad just because someone shows a [vastly] better proof-of-concept 'alternative'.

Apparently you should. I can confirm that the first quote is a appropriate assessment of the difficulty of writing terminal renderer. Citation: I did pretty much exactly the same thing for pretty much exactly the same reasons when (IIRC gnome-)terminal was incapable of handing 80*24*60 = 115200 esc-[-m sequences per second, and am still using the resulting terminal emulator as a daily driver years later.