5 comments

  • evanjrowley 3 hours ago
    Rio is the terminal multiplexer in Plan 9
    • st_goliath 1 hour ago
      The confusion with Plan 9 is probably part of the reason this jumped onto the front page.

      Besides that name clash, it apparently competes with another terminal emulator that was creatively named "vt100".

      Scrolling over the page I did a double take when I saw the benchmark. No way a vt100 can do 221 MiB/s. Besides, who types that fast anyway?

    • actionfromafar 16 minutes ago
      ed is not the standard editor?
  • arikrahman 4 hours ago
    Great, ghost.el was made thanks to the well-made libghostty-vt library. I am very to try out Rio in Emacs next.
  • floren 3 hours ago
    Naming a terminal emulator "rio" seems like a cruel joke on Rob Pike :)
    • rbanffy 25 minutes ago
      Kids who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat names we already used.

      Before you name something, google for it.

      Here in Dublin, Ireland, there’s a store that sells stuff for small kids and their parents called “Baby Doc”. I wonder if someone already told them.

      • ButlerianJihad 20 minutes ago
        Let's put down the sledgehammer and firehose when attempting specific goals.

        You can do a Wikipedia search, trademark searches in your target/home country, domain registrar checks, and search on Google Maps, OSM, Apple Maps.

        There are lots of targeted ways to find companies by name.

        Now if you find something unused, you may be wise to check UrbanDictionary, KnowYourMeme, and your 12-year-old niece. And eventually, Google will find you.

        By the way, naming something good or positive can sometimes have an effect of eclipsing or erasing the prior bad associations. Perhaps in a few generations, children will only remember "Baby Doc" as their favorite store, divorced from geopolitics.

  • pjmlp 2 hours ago
    I thought this was about Plan 9.