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Maybe once the glaring bugs in it are fixed.

The ones where half of my keyboard shortcuts were acting funny (something like https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1147), or garbage left from some other screens/commands (https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1079).

Midnight Commander is also being drawn in a jumpy way.

Note that I'm not speaking about new emojis or some novel Unicode stuff, it's the same basic multilingual plane and line drawing characters we've had for decades now.




> Maybe once the glaring bugs in it are fixed.

Paintings, books, movies... are finished with the bugs in.

Vulnerabilities need rapid fixes.

Every other bugfix requires additional effort and comes with the risk of introducing vulnerabilities or other bugs.

At some point 99.9% of the users are happy and the benefit of fixing another bug becomes marginal.


A tool is a tool, not a work of art. Tools are supposed to be used. Therefore, flaws in them need to be fixed.




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