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> There's so many blog posts saying look, we're so smart

Have you read Casey's twitter feed? The man routinely goes into long twitter thread rants about how stupid everyone else is.

His favorite target seems to be...drumroll please...large corporation software teams.

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> rants about how stupid everyone else is.

> His favorite target seems to be...drumroll please...large corporation software teams.

To be fair, that's... not unreasonable. I've thought unkind things about large corporate software teams while I was working at said large corp.

> rants about how stupid everyone else is.

> His favorite target seems to be...drumroll please...large corporation software teams.

I missed the part where he is wrong.

the part where "he" is wrong, is the part where he tells everyone that his reference software can be compared to a real terminal. You cannot compare shoes with towels, nor cats with a TV. The tiling renderer "he" wrote as part of the reference software to demo isn't that bad as a product (to some degree), but that piece of software is garbage, as it has zero use. And almost none of the techniques "he" brags about can be applied to a real terminal. I mean, I like being educated. But so far, noone of the internet fanboys "he" has, has so far ever provided a real product out of his reference software. Admitted, some people tried (just look around), but they all failed. I wonder why. Do you know it?

> the part where "he" is wrong, is the part where he tells everyone that his reference software can be compared to a real terminal

He very clearly states that his implementation is a terminal renderer.

> And almost none of the techniques "he" brags about can be applied to a real terminal

Elsewhere one of the people from the screenshots says "we implemented the same approach" because these techniques can be and have been applied. Both in Windows Terminal and, as I understand it, in every single modern terminal emulator.

Why is the word “he” in quotes? Are you implying that they’re trnsgnder or something? But you don’t put “his” in quotes, so that probably isn’t why?

It is confusing.

Thing about Casey's rants is that he's completely right though. This is obvious to pretty much anyone who isn't being disingenuous about it. And his writing takes on an admittedly aggressive tone because, frankly, we've been dealing with shitty software that keeps getting shittier written by self-aggrandizing people for a decade or so now. He tried being diplomatic in his issue report and he was shit on for it. That happens all the time.

He's not wrong though. Large corp software teams, paradoxically, tend to run stupid even if comprised of smart people.

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