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Terminal Emulator Basics in Golang

recording made private on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/kndOEccwF1Q
Talkat GopherCon Europe 2021 · 2021-05-26..05-28· [linux-and-operating-systems, go]
linkedin:ishuah
video:https://youtu.be/kndOEccwF1Q (made private)
slides:none on file

Covers how terminal I/O and the Unix TTY subsystem work (how keystrokes, control signals like Ctrl-Z, and terminal concepts are handled) and demonstrates building a simple terminal emulator using Go (Golang). The talk explains why terminals behave the way they do and implements the basics of a terminal emulator in Go.

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