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Someone explained to me once why a GPU-accelerated terminal emu might be useful, but I can't recall what you might use that for. Anyone have an example of what a good use case would be?
My best guess is some local LLM AI bullshit running in terminal.
GPU accelerated terminal emulators first came about in the mid aughts, though the modern ones that are good, the ones like gostty, really first showed up around 2015. the value for them is that rendering text can be a bottleneck in long-running operations on the terminal in a display environment (as opposed to a raw shell). i only know of one shell with ai features, warp, but i avoid proprietary tools that run system breaking actions so i can't speak to how bullshit is