Question about VSCode terminal

[takkuumi]

VSCode terminal use canvas to show command result.
it's so amazing! i wonder how it's done?

like this?
input command -> native terminal -> output command -> syntax to html -> draw html to canvas

[Tyriar]

You can check out this blog post I wrote about it for a high-level summary: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-renderer

Here's the PR that goes into more technical details: xtermjs/xterm.js#938

Essentially this is how it was before:

input -> pty -> output -> create html based on output

And now:

input -> pty -> output -> draw text to canvas based on output