How are Terminal/CLI-like apps built?

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  • ish

    Linux shell for iOS

  • iSH is open source so you can check how it works here. The others are just SSH clients though.

  • st

    build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw (by mrdotx)

  • Building a terminal emulator from scratch is not that hard. Check out st, although it's written in C and targets X11, the overall principles are universal and you probably won't find a cleaner and more concise code base to study on this planet.

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