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iTerm2 is only available for macs right? imgcat can work with any terminal that is able to display colored characters.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/icat.html

How many competing protocols are there for displaying images in a terminal? There's this, iTerm2 (also supported by Secure Shell[1])... any others? We need one unified standard[2] for graphics in terminal emulators!

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/HEAD/hterm/...

[2] https://xkcd.com/927/

Don't forget the classic SIXEL: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

Correct.

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