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Windows has out-of-band terminal controls (size, ...) through a terminal API.

They decided it was a bad thing (also compatibility) and now they implemented in-band ANSI escape sequences and recommend them.

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I'm not sure if this was they reason for them, but one potential problem is synchronization between the two bands.

Fascinating. Do you know why?

The biggest one is compatibility with Linux console apps.

But also the difficulty of running a terminal session outside the traditional Windows command line app (think VS Code terminal pane).

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l...

Surely VS Code terminal pane can't display arbitrary unix terminal session, so this shouldn't be a concern. Arguably windows makes it easier: since color control is out of band, it can be ignored and only text is displayed.

because of the hacker community circle jerk. there was no rational reason. it's like back when people used ANSI.SYS to display a text file with colors. it's leet factor and has no application in reality.

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