

This necessarily produces a worse outcome for the project. Extremely and intentionally caustic feedback on Microsoft stuff does nothing but give those employees good reason to stop working on the projects they love, but which also get the most attention, like Terminal. The developers at Microsoft are people like us. I've never worked at Microsoft but I've worked with a lot of MS employees throughout my career and I wish I could convey just how much the goals of the individual employees line up with people like us. Microsoft haters will continue to say all kinds of stuff no matter what Microsoft does, so Microsoft isn't doing this to appease anyone it's just performance work that they didn't understand was as easily reached as it is, and they built the Terminal in wrong ways the first time around. The Terminal team have a path forward to implement strong performance improvements based on techniques like those Casey described, and are working on those improvements now, I'm told. Casey deliberately licensed it as GPL so that Microsoft could not use it, actually.

The Terminal team is very aware of this code, and are not able to use it due to how Casey licensed it.
