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The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
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What it is
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
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Where it is used
- Visual Studio — Visual Studio uses Windows Terminal’s core to power its integrated terminal, providing a more robust terminal experience and faster adoption of new functionality. Source
What people are saying
A quick off-the-cuff remark based solely on the title: in 2024, I think the state of the terminal has never been better, in large part to Microsoft making a high quality…
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- cmuratori/refterm · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 11:34:28 AM UTC.
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HN mentions by year270 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2018-03-30 18:23:14 UTC to 2026-10-22 16:10:14 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 45 | 12 | 33 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 54 | 6 | 48 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 56 | 7 | 49 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 47 | 4 | 43 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 29 | 6 | 23 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesLOlostmsu·Oct 22, 2026
I stopped using Windows Terminal altogether because it somehow tends to crash the processes running inside its tabs. And I have a lot of terminals open.
An example issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16363 . This exact error message with different codes happened to me across many machines at many different times. Never seen anything like that with the classic console host.
In I can't believe PowerShell is goodClaude Code abuses WSL2 interop to just send clipboard
1 points · Open discussionThis is obligatory read: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/it-takes-a-phd-to-develop-t...
Later, Microsoft fixes the issue but fails to give Muratori credit. After backlash, they went back and gave him a footnote: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-... (atlas release section)
GitHub thread in question: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
And this gem: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
In Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yoursAre you using the Windows Terminal app? CMD or Powershell are yanky but Windows Terminal solved a few icks for me.
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e
In WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access> Native apps on Windows look crap to me (without even mentioning the advanced fragmentation in UI toolkits in Windows).
WinUI 3 is pretty decent. Have a look at first-party programs like PowerToys[1], or Windows Terminal[2].
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
In Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UIYes, I know this feeling, it's like typing on air. The Windows Terminal has this same feeling. 8 years ago I opened this issue https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/327 and the creators of the tool explained how they do it.
xterm in X11 has this feeling, ghostty does not. It's like being stuck in mud but it's not just ghostty, all GPU accelerated terminals on Linux I tried have this muddy feel. It's interesting because moving windows around feels really smooth (much smoother than X11).
I wish this topic was investigated in more depth because inputting text is an important part of a terminal. If anyone wants to experience this with Wayland, try not booting into your desktop environment straight into a tty and then type. xterm in X11 and the Windows Terminal feel like this.
In Ghostty – Terminal Emulator>I doubt that people think it's the engineering teams that are the problem
Did you forget Microsoft engineering response to Casey Muratori "Extremely slow performance when processing virtual terminal sequences"?
"I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively."
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
followed by Casey producing evidence for his 'extremely simple' claim in couple of days.
In Another GitHub outage in the same day