How I use my terminal

As someone that was happy that I could finally afford owning computers with a graphics display on them, this going back to the terminal doesn't stop surprising me.

We still do horses, but hardly anyone is favouring them for travelling around the continent delivering mail.

Kudos to the people that would rather experience that, I guess.

The point isn't really the lack of graphics, it's more about the use of a keyboard and text as a universal data format.

Graphical programs look nice but are a nightmare for interoperability.

Having said that, as an Emacs user I'm surprised that anyone goes to this much effort to not use Emacs. This is what it's made for and it's all built in the most hacker-friendly way imaginable.

It's difficult to express how amazing Emacs is to someone that hasn't used it long enough to really learn it. I used vi for 20 years before switching, and I'll never go back, but the me then just didn't realize what Emacs could do for me.

Now extrapolate the experience to a complete operating system, instead of only the editor.

This is what systems like those from Xerox PARC, TI, Genera, ETHZ, Inferno had to offer, and we aren't still quite there in mainstream systems.

What languages are these systems based around? Maybe Lisp has something to do with it? I've been drawn to things like Guix and stumpwm for this reason. It would be a dream to have an entire OS built on a Lisp.