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Question for you, but first I just want to say thanks! The technology is awesome.

That Tetris game is that a command line thing? If so what library are you using to manipulate the console? I've wanted to create interactive command line utilities with the JVM for a long time and it's always been not supported.

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It's a Linux-only trick: https://github.com/kt97679/tetris/blob/52dfb3a703e4dd5b37990...

Ok what on earth is going on there... It's launching a shell but I'm not sure what the stty does

The commandline buffers input by default, because it starts in "cooked" mode.

That line turns off buffering so that keypresses can immediately be read, by putting it into "raw" mode.

excellent! thank you

that's this tetris: https://github.com/kt97679/tetris/blob/master/Tetris.java

ncurses I think. There's an issue with how jconsole and tetris work together, so when tetris exits, jshell does too.

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