At its Build 2019 developers conference today, Microsoft announced a slew of offerings for Windows developers, including Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, XAML Islands, React Native for Windows, and MSIX Core.
Windows Terminal, available in preview now, is a new application for command-line users that promises a user interface with “graphics-processing-unit-accelerated text rendering.” The application features tabs; tear-away windows; shortcuts; and full Unicode support, including East Asian fonts, emojis, ligatures, theming, and extensions. Windows Terminal is meant for users of PowerShell, Cmd, WSL, and other command-line applications.
Windows Terminal seems to address quite a few shortcomings of Windows when it comes to its terminal – or lack thereof – and is certainly going to make a lot of developers and administrators quire, quite happy.
I guess the second link should point to:
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-windows-terminal-wsl-2-coming-june/ (the website changes urls after scrolling on another article)
> In fact, Microsoft is promising developers “twice as much speed for file-system heavy operations, such as Node Package Manager install.
Ahhh.. good to hear 🙂
Nice, but why the hell are they worrying about stupid emoji in the CLI of all places? If I start having to type those stupid things in the CLI, I’m getting out of Windows admin altogether.
I suspect it’s because of idiot webdevs who put emojis in git commit messages, comments, HTTP responses, etc. It’s better to display an emoji than to have an unparsed unicode symbol crash your terminal.
tidux,
Is it though? Terminal crashing builds character and gives hollywood more fodder to work with, haha.
On a serious note, a unicode terminal shouldn’t crash even with unrecognized characters…normally we’d just see a box representing unprintable characters, no? I searched and found this OS-X unicode bug. I guess this is what you are referring to?
https://github.com/jgamblin/unicodecrash/
I don’t feel that non-linguistic characters add much value to github commits and furthermore I am not a fan of emojis polluting the unicode standard. I wish we’d end this fad. For social purposes, users would be better served by having emojis left to image/multimedia tags rather than character sets.
They’re valid unicode characters. They should be supported.
Indeed. The solution is clear. Remove emoji from unicode!