> Why does the successor to the terminal need to be text oriented at all?
I think because we already have non-text based terminal succesors.
I think there is interest in a succesor to text-bassd because a lot of people both like them but the space has been rather stagnant for a while.
To put it bluntly, what if its nothing like you ever imagined isn't all that interesting as speculation because it doesn't commit to any choices. The proposal has to be imaginable to be interesting.
> I think because we already have non-text based terminal succesors.
We've had them for a long time. There have been multiple graphics standards terminals supported - Tektronix, ReGIS, Sixels, up to richer, less successful interfaces (such as AT&T's Blit and its successors - all gorgeous, all failed in the marketplace).
The notebook interface popularized by iPython is an interesting one, but it's not really a replacement for a terminal.
I think because we already have non-text based terminal succesors.
I think there is interest in a succesor to text-bassd because a lot of people both like them but the space has been rather stagnant for a while.
To put it bluntly, what if its nothing like you ever imagined isn't all that interesting as speculation because it doesn't commit to any choices. The proposal has to be imaginable to be interesting.