Author of sixel-tmux (and of the matching rant) here.
Your description of sixels using words like 'cosplaying' or 'late 90s japanese cellphone' is not very technical. It seems biased. In any case, it would be better than being stuck with the 60s "text only" VT100 like protocols.
We can talk about technicalities, as some people do not like how sixels work under the hood, but... they work fine: I can play video in my terminals. I use gnuplot everyday.
Could it be done better by a protocol that would use compression and other features? Maybe. But does it have to be? Why should we waste time reinventing the wheel when locally there's plenty of bandwidth, and remotely too often enough?
Personally, I like sixels because prefer a standard that is well defined, and can't change on someone whim: I like stable interfaces.
I think users are unfairly held back due to biases like the one you demonstrated, and that seem very common in the free software world, which was the point of my rant: there is no logical reason sixels couldn't be offered today in gnome terminal if the key people making sure that doesn't happen changed their mind.
Your description of sixels using words like 'cosplaying' or 'late 90s japanese cellphone' is not very technical. It seems biased. In any case, it would be better than being stuck with the 60s "text only" VT100 like protocols.
We can talk about technicalities, as some people do not like how sixels work under the hood, but... they work fine: I can play video in my terminals. I use gnuplot everyday.
Could it be done better by a protocol that would use compression and other features? Maybe. But does it have to be? Why should we waste time reinventing the wheel when locally there's plenty of bandwidth, and remotely too often enough?
Personally, I like sixels because prefer a standard that is well defined, and can't change on someone whim: I like stable interfaces.
I think users are unfairly held back due to biases like the one you demonstrated, and that seem very common in the free software world, which was the point of my rant: there is no logical reason sixels couldn't be offered today in gnome terminal if the key people making sure that doesn't happen changed their mind.