!!Con West 2020 - Jeremy Apthorp: Curses!!

Presented at !!Con West 2020: http://bangbangcon.com/west Okay, so you’ve probably called print() and seen some text appear in a terminal. Cool cool cool. But some programs print COLORS??? And move the cursor around and stuff? How in the heck does all that work? I got curious and went digging, and to really answer this we need to go back to 1835 and the first application of electrical engineering. #bangbangcon #bangbangconwest #bangbangconwest2020