Your terminal still runs a 1-second sleep added in 1979 so mechanical printer-and-ink…
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🚨 THIS IS INSANE Your terminal still runs a 1-second sleep added in 1979 so mechanical printer-and-ink terminals could "settle down." The printers are extinct. The sleep ships in macOS/BSD reset today. It's called rst — a 156 KB Zig binary that resets your terminal in ~2 ms, by Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Here's the wild part: 1. It drops the 47-year-old settling sleep entirely 2. It parses the terminfo database itself — no ncurses 3. It links only libc; the system reset links libtinfo 4. It repairs kernel TTY state: raw mode, echo, stuck ^S, stale typeahead 5. It refuses to run as a back
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