Episode 90: Terminals and Shells

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Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Oprah Supersoul
• Patrick: 
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• Patrick:
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Terminals and Shells (45:34)

• Terminal Emulators
• Renders terminal output
• Terminal output has a protocol (ANSI codes)
• Position cursor
• Colors
• Ring bell
• Draw pixels
• Popular Terminal Emulators
• Cmd & Powershell (Windows)
• Windows Terminal (Windows)
• Gterminal / Konsole (Linux)
• Terminal / iTerm2 (OS/X)
• Hyper.js (Cross Platform)
• Shells
• Read/Writes terminal protocol
• Executes programs
• Advanced Features
• Tab completion
• Prompt (status)
• Show git branch
• Popular shells
• Bash
• Zsh
• Oh-My-Zsh
• Fish
• ShellCheck