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The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

270 mentions on Hacker News by 202 people: 37 stories, 233 comments · first 2018-03-30 · latest 2026-10-22

Mentions per year 270 mentions · busiest year 2021 (56)
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  1. …crash the processes running inside its tabs. And I have a lot of terminals open. An example issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16363 . This exact error message with different codes happened to me across many machines at…
    comment by lostmsu · 2026-10-22 · in I can't believe PowerShell is good
  2. ▲ 1
    Claude Code abuses WSL2 interop to just send clipboard
    story by lazymio · 2026-10-20 · 0 comments
  3. …ogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-... (atlas release section) GitHub thread in question: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... And this gem: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm…
  4. …Windows Terminal app? CMD or Powershell are yanky but Windows Terminal solved a few icks for me. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e
  5. …like PowerToys[1], or Windows Terminal[2]. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by delta_p_delta_x · 2026-05-13 · in Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
  6. …like typing on air. The Windows Terminal has this same feeling. 8 years ago I opened this issue https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/327 and the creators of the tool explained how they do it. xterm in X11 has this feeling, ghostty…
    comment by nickjj · 2026-03-02 · in Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
  7. …research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively." https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... followed by Casey producing evidence for his 'extremely simple' claim in couple…
  8. …I spent a week investigating doing something similar with the Windows Terminal about 18 months ago: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16495#issuecomm... There's even more under the "Updates archive" expando in that post. It was…
    comment by zadjii · 2025-11-11 · in The terminal of the future
  9. …That combined with a couple of other PRs in 1.22 made some scenarios up to _16x_ faster[^2] [^1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/17510 [^2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
    comment by zadjii · 2025-11-11 · in Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)
  10. This is "an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation". https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
  11. …same question for years but then Windows Terminal appears out of no where and is a real godsend. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by rimmontrieu · 2025-09-24 · in Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator
  12. …takes over `conhost.exe` and brings telemetry spying even to old apps which never had it before :D https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/commit/906edf7002b8ccf...
    comment by Lammy · 2025-08-16 · in PuTTY has a new website
  13. In fact, Windows Terminal has an open issue for the CC mode: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3656
    comment by lostmsu · 2025-08-08 · in Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
  14. …not, and handles this with two distinct entire state machines, one for input and one for output. * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/terminal... I handled it with a few goto statements and a handful of flags. (-: *…
  15. …John Carmack and Michael Abrash all the time. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdpLSXUXHY
    comment by mustache_kimono · 2025-07-12 · in A software conference that advocates for quality
  16. …research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively" from: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... Here is Casey banging out a more Unicode compliant terminal that looks more…
  17. …any complexity in how it was built. [^0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687 [^1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
  18. what about https://github.com/microsoft/terminal you use that too right? you better!
    comment by grimgrin · 2024-09-10 · in Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
  19. …have already been open-sourced. For example, the console host component has been open sourced here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal And the FAT filesystem driver: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/mai... And…
  20. Windows' terminal has integration directly with WSL2; https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by nusl · 2024-08-12 · in Okay, I Like WezTerm
  21. cmd.exe or the new https://github.com/microsoft/terminal ?
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    The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images
    story by zadjii · 2024-07-01 · 37 comments
  23. …good terminal and that my favorite terminal rendering libraries should Just Work on all of them [1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by eminence32 · 2024-05-16 · in State of the Terminal
  24. …employee recently (~6 months) opened a Github issue to discuss a command line editor for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440 > " Thank you so much to everyone for engaging with this feature exploration! Your…
  25. …a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion: > I believe what…
  26. …but I'm also happy enough with PowerShell these days I'm not in a hurry to return to CMD.EXE. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host
    comment by WorldMaker · 2024-03-12 · in Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0
  27. …it easier to administer a Windows Server. They are looking at adding a default TUI text editor ( https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440 ) and now they are adding sudo. I would not be surprised if systemd or something like…
  28. …employees are not permitted to view or learn from an open source (GPL-2) terminal emulator: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm... Another example is proprietary software that may have it's source available, either…
  29. …emulator written in the last few years. No smooth scrolling, here's the GitHub issue requesting it: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1400 VS.Code's supports smooth scrolling in both the editor and terminal window, but it's off…
    comment by NelsonMinar · 2024-01-04 · in Terminal Smooth Scrolling
  30. …that Casey’s implementation isn’t even as fast as things could be. His optimizations are minor. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6zCgpCFlgggR...
  31. Assume its related to this: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 It's nothing serious just microsoft engineers writing slow as shit code and reacting poorly to someone trying to help.
  32. …environments, etc. There are some environments that will never connect to winget." Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440#disc...
    comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2023-12-14 · in Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
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    Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
    story by 9front · 2023-12-14 · 49 comments
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    Windows Feature Exploration: Default CLI Text Editor
    story by taubek · 2023-12-11 · 0 comments
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    Default Windows CLI Text Editor (Neovim, Nano, Edit)
    story by 0xa2 · 2023-12-09 · 0 comments
  36. …DotNet Core: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr... Windows Terminal: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331 Az module: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.azure... Etc...
  37. Also, Microsoft has their own new terminal program. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
  38. Looks like there's some discussion about the first one in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/15939
    comment by pathartl · 2023-09-27 · in Windows Terminal Preview 1.19
  39. Release notes can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.19.268... Some highlights: * Broadcast input to all the panes in a tab * Unfocused acrylic support * A new suggestions menu, for intellisense-like…
    comment by zadjii · 2023-09-26 · in Windows Terminal Preview 1.19
  40. …[2] has a repeatedly edited post by the Microsoft author where attitudes are on full display. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31372606 [2]…
  41. No. Something much better. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by sixothree · 2023-09-06 · in Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
  42. …and the new windows terminal app[2]. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install [2] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by millzlane · 2023-08-26 · in Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
  43. Yeah, just Windows Terminal: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/
    comment by sphars · 2023-08-08 · in Terminal Support for Emoji
  44. …my sanity. This incident was Casey Muratori raising an issue about Windows Terminal performance: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1522471966929653761…
  45. …better, including REP of Supplementary Plane characters, but now the converse is also true. (-: * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/15390 PuTTY is used in thin disguise by all MobaXTerm users, of course.
    comment by JdeBP · 2023-06-04 · in Still Love Telnet
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    Default Terminal is now supported on Windows 10
    story by delta_p_delta_x · 2023-06-04 · 0 comments
  47. Windows Terminal is probably your best bet if you want a clean default https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by riffic · 2023-06-04 · in Still Love Telnet
  48. …by comparison, again? (-: Microsoft Terminal has a whole open GitHub issues system to itself. * https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/
  49. …That was experimented with for a couple releases before being even _more_ substantially rewritten: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/14959 I hate that what was definitely intended as a joke originally turned into this massive…
  50. ▲ 1
    Slow performance when processing virtual terminal sequences (2021)
    story by Fervicus · 2023-05-24 · 0 comments