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This looks like a potentially cool project, but some of the marketing here is pretty off-putting. First of all the idea that the terminal is "on life support" is laughable, what tool is more universal? And

> Why doesn’t the terminal work like the rest of your apps? Developer tools have evolved towards reusability, composability, and collaboration.

Terminal workflows may be the single best tool in the first 2 of those 3 categories.

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i view the marketing as showing they care about product and users here

Yeah, I mean maybe I'm overreacting -- I'm all for a better terminal, and there's some genuinely cool stuff here -- it's just undermining its own case by overselling IMO.

> Yeah, I mean maybe I'm overreacting

No, you're reaction is perfectly reasonable for such nonsensical hyperbole.

I don't. If they did, they'd recognize the fact that the entire concept of "Apps", collaboration, etc..., are examples of ways human beings assemble tools to interact.

Terminals are one of the most direct ways to interact with hardware. If you need to share your hardware with someone else, then you share your screen or a recording. If you need to share your environment or she'll settings, you share scripts.

There's nothing to terminal use to be gained by trying to shoehorn in more net connections, and more uncertainty by merging in more sources of input. By cramming that in you are doing the opposite of caring about users. You're introducing extra elements that can break, decreasing the overall learnability of the system.

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