macOS Terminal - still missing the mark Apple!
(Note: I'm resurrecting this dormant blog after a long period of inactivity. But this thing bothered me so much that I felt I needed to write a blog about it.) TLDR: The macOS Terminal.app is still buggy and not recommended. Instead consider switching to a 3rd party emulator. The rest of this post describes the faults in far more detail. One of the more lauded features in macOS 26 is the updated Terminal.app . As some of you may know, I'm the author of a very popular library for interacting with terminals and terminal emulators, at least within the Go ecosystem. I was excited to hear about the new Terminal.app. Finally, we would get support for 24-bit color, years after everyone else has had it. (Even Microsoft beat Apple to the punch here, leading by something like half a decade.) So yes, the good news is that macOS Terminal.app in does support 24-bit color. But in nearly every other interesting case it is far inferior. The rest of this is probably only...