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LOL @ the bright green on black terminal pictures. How shall I say it, it feels very "l33t". Too bad they didn't use more normal terminal colours, it would improve readability IMO.
I've been using a green on black scheme for years now, imo it is the best color combination for low light environments.
LOL @ the bright green on black terminal pictures. How shall I say it, it feels very "l33t". Too bad they didn't use more normal terminal colours, it would improve readability IMO.
I don't think its a "l33t" thing its just cultural. A fair number of engineers grew up with old computers that looked like this: https://i.imgur.com/WERwVsS.jpg Personally I learned to code on an old cathode ray tube monitor with green text, hooked up to a Tandy 1000. The CRT made a lot of heat and emitted a faint electronic tonal noise when it was running. I think the use of green color in terminals today is kind of…
In fact, I think it would be an interesting thing to standardize, like super-completion.
Someone else in this thread mentioned that Amazon is working on a similar interactive shell [0], and there is a whole group of tools like this for database CLI's [1], including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, and VerticaDB.
It's a shame that each of these projects have to somewhat re-invent the wheel (though prompt-toolkit does a lot of heavy lifting [2]). And it's even more of a shame that each of these tools require a seperate environment. So, you have to exit Google's interactive shell to do something in AWS.
[0] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell
[2] https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
This is an interesting accommodation to less terminal savvy users. I'm not interested personally. But, it's an interesting concept. In fact, I think it would be an interesting thing to standardize, like super-completion. Someone else in this thread mentioned that Amazon is working on a similar interactive shell [0], and there is a whole group of tools like this for database CLI's [1], including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-…
For instance...Google CloudSQL - Great! Postgres - Beta...Postgres from AppEngine python...err, we'll get around to it, maybe.
Just giving one example, but my point is - finish what you've started before making new. I think recent articles I've read about launching being the track to promotion explain some of the state of things within GCP.
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I've been using a green on black scheme for years now, imo it is the best color combination for low light environments.
Amber on black (à la DEC VT420 terminals and some early PC monochrome monitors) also works well in low light.
I just looked at the first animation. If I find myself typing commands this long, I know I'm doing it wrong.