On: Colorize Your CLI

[thih9]

> I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever.

A complete rewrite would be an opportunity to overlook important ideas, compromise on goals and make design mistakes.

I’d strongly prefer slow, iterative approach here.

[kjeetgill → thih9]

To use a tortured metaphor: Like any pathfinding problem, sure slow and iterative is an important part of the algorithm but so is backtracking.

I'm inclined to "if it ain't broke don't fix it", but it's also just as true that this greedy algorithm just leaves us at a local optima.