TUI applications
i thought parsing terminfo was just going to be a neat little “oh heh there’s some stuff here.”
turns out you need a damn virtual machine just to print text in linux.
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TUI applications
@icedquinn TTF is even crazier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language
That was on purpose though in order to get around a patent issue.
re: TUI applications
actulaly BeOS had one of these too. their icon format was equivalent to a super cut down SVG but bytecode