The terminal of the future

Y'know, 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 a pretty compelling prototype. But after I played with Polyglot Notebooks[1], I pretty much just abandoned that experiment. There's a _lot_ of UI that needs to be written to build a notebook-like experience. But the Polyglot notebooks took care of that by just converting the commandline backend to a jupyter kernel.

I've been writing more and more script-like experiments in those ever since. Just seems so much more natural to have a big-ol doc full of notes, that just so happens to also have play buttons to Do The Thing.

[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

Actually a really neat concept with building that into windows terminal. I remember seeing this a while ago. Personally I love the notebook style interactive documents and hope there are more going forward.

I hadn’t seen these yet but have been low-key looking for this for a while. I think something like a polyglot notebook might be a better “system” for a person or an LLM to manipulate to achieve something…