Hacker News Reader

I think the explanation lies here:

> VTE is a terrible base for building a modern, fast and safe terminal emulator. It's slow, brittle and difficult to improve.

It sounds like the maintainers of termite had a miserable time dealing with VTE, and are glad to see the back of it.

View on HN

I mean I get that, but they could have just said we're no longer developing this, because we're tired or whatever. I just think it's interesting they made such a strong stand.

dev started with the hubris to try to do better.

the laziness to find supposedly good libraries to work atop.

and his impatience at a resistant, inflexible library resulted in them warding others off againat similar folly.

a three virtues mini saga if I've heard of one,

http://threevirtues.com/

Given with how the conversation went in the Bugzilla ticket[0] that Daniel Micay linked, I can't say that I blame him.

Make sure to scroll all the way down to comment #26 where the devs say:

> This bug is closed and this patch rejected […] Adding keyboard selection to vte will be done inside vte, see bug 78291 [1]

– a bug which is 19 (in words: nineteen) years old.

[0]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658

[1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291

Reply on news.ycombinator.com