Comment by zahlman

> Look at the ANSI escape sequence you need to make any of this work, does that look like a sane graphics API to you? Obviously not.

Of course it doesn't, because it isn't a graphics API. It's a styled text API.

> Modern 2D graphics are extremely capable and deliver better performance in every metric.

A big part of the complaint is https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency .