For the record: https://st.suckless.org/ > Motivation > > Here's an excerpt from the xterm(1) README: > > Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here > > This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was > one of the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of > historical baggage. Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and > then vt102 and tek4014 subwidgets so that they could be used in other > programs. We are trying to clean things up as we go, but there is still > a lot of work to do. > > It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete > terminals you will never need. > > The popular alternative, rxvt has _only_ 32K lines of code. This is just > too much for something as simple as a terminal emulator; it's yet > another example of code complexity. > > Terminal emulation doesn't need to be so complex.
There was a similar lame attempt at trolling some time back (a couple of years maybe?), stating that Xterm is supposedly "better" than st. st is the *best* terminal out there, *the* suckless terminal. Xterm, rxvt, and its various modifications, not to mention GUI terminal emulators, are all piles of steaming, bloated mess.
