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New Windows Terminal - tabbed, emoji-capable Windows command-line experience.

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Yes, Windows 10 now has a bona-fide desktop terminal app called …drum roll …Windows Terminal.

Yeah, no marks for originality there, Microsoft.
 

The new Windows Terminal app boasts a a clean, tabbed UI, full Unicode support (yes, including emoji) and will support themes and extensions so that developers can tailor a terminal environment that is totally to their taste.
 

The app will provide full access to Command Prompt, PowerShell, WSL, SSH and more.

Windows Terminal will be distributed through the Microsoft Store, and not tied to specific OS updates. This should ensure Microsoft is able to deliver new features to users without needing them to ‘reboot to install updates’ or pass through any other time-consuming hurdles.

The terminal can be tested out right now and is opensource, along with the terminal a new mono-type based font is also getting developed by Microsoft which is also, once again Open Source.

And you know it is awesome when there is a video showcasing a terminal.

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Visit the repo (below) to clone, build, test, and run the Terminal! You can file bugs and share feedback with us and the community as well as fix issues and make improvements on GitHub

Repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
Source : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/coming-soon-windows-terminal-finally-a-tabbed-emoji-capable-windows-command-line/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/ubuntu-support-windows-subsystem-linux-2

 

Devblog : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windows-terminal/

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Between this and Microsoft shipping a full Linux kernel within Windows, I believe they're either admitting defeat in some way or trying to make Windows more attractive to developers.

 

Probably the latter.

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Looks cool, but it won't build.  Guess I'll wait till it hits the store.

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28 minutes ago, Nowak said:

Between this and Microsoft shipping a full Linux kernel within Windows, I believe they're either admitting defeat in some way or trying to make Windows more attractive to developers.

 

Probably the latter.

Or they want it all and offer the customer the choice of what they want...

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Microsoft has been moving to cross-platform for some time now, especially for developpers. With stuff like Xamarin and more and more native support for their tools on other platforms. I'm guessing this is just another one of those tools that they thought needed adressing. 

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2 hours ago, Screen said:

The new Windows Terminal app boasts a a clean, tabbed UI, full Unicode support (yes, including emoji) and will support themes and extensions so that developers can tailor a terminal environment that is totally to their taste

What's the point of that may i ask?

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2 hours ago, Screen said:

Yes, Windows 10 now has a bona-fide desktop terminal app called …drum roll …Windows Terminal.

Yeah, no marks for originality there, Microsoft.

I wouldnt want them to be original. :D Just keep it simple and keep the marketing BS out of it.

With this and the Linux kernel it seems were are going back to the good old days.

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9 minutes ago, SlimyPython said:

What's the point of that may i ask?

For hip javascript developers debugging emojis in their web apps.

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This reminds me a lot of cmdr, which is a good thing. This sounds really promising. I probably won't be able to replace PuTTY with it since I still need access to comm ports, but the tabbed SSH sounds dreamy.

 

2 hours ago, Fez_Boy said:

Looks cool, but it won't build.  Guess I'll wait till it hits the store. 

Seems like the build instructions are fairly incomplete. Have you made sure that you got all dependencies (not listed in the readme) installed?

  • Windows 10 SDK, version 1903 (1903 is also needed to run the program)
  • Visual Studio 2017 or later.
  • The VS package "Desktop Development with c++"
  • The VS package "Universal Windows Platform Development"
  • C++ ATL in VS.
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3 hours ago, SlimyPython said:

What's the point of that may i ask?

Because supporting UTF-8 will automatically support emoji, and any terminal app should use UTF-8 in the first place.

Most Linux terminals support UTF-8 and emoji already.

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4 hours ago, SlimyPython said:

What's the point of that may i ask?

Real talk: probably because not including it would not be a benefit of emojis actually got used for something. 

 

That or they are marketing it towards youth, where the ammount of emojis indicate their level of dedication

 

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I hope this is available in safe mode as well.

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4 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Windows 10 SDK, version 1903 (1903 is also needed to run the program)

Well that explains it, I'm still on 1803.

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Pretty cool, I'm especially excited about the emoji support, that's really a necessity in this day and age ?

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Interesting move, but does looks good. 

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2 hours ago, HarryNyquist said:

any terminal app should use UTF-8 in the first place.

Not if it supports emoji.

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2 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Not if it supports emoji.

Why not?  Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it, and it's required for proper utf-8 support, which is most definitely a necessity.

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Aero glass coming back confirmed. xD

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Anyways, looks good. Maybe one day I'll move to Windows 10. Maybe...

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44 minutes ago, Fez_Boy said:

Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it

Every instance so far has been, 'yes, you do.'

 

45 minutes ago, Fez_Boy said:

it's required for proper utf-8 support, 

And? Move to a standard that doesn't include emoji. It's a waste of time and effort to use a system that incorporates emoji garbage.

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9 hours ago, Nowak said:

Between this and Microsoft shipping a full Linux kernel within Windows, I believe they're either admitting defeat in some way or trying to make Windows more attractive to developers.

 

Windows has always been a disjointed mess in that regard. It’s entire framework was/is not developer friendly. 

 

Its gotten better, but there is a reason most servers run some variant of Linux. 

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inb4 someone makes a programming language that only uses emoji

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4 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

And? Move to a standard that doesn't include emoji. It's a waste of time and effort to use a system that incorporates emoji garbage.

Unicode is critical for internationalization. There is no standard that supports international script as fluently as Unicode does.

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Any idea of when this is coming to the store? I'm not going to early-adopt 1903 just to test a terminal that may/may not work.

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