[charlesdaniels]

> That's a protocol that's a good forty years old

34 years old, actually. I guess we can go ahead and deprecate the x86 instruction set, tcp/ip, ASCII, C, tar, and many other tools and standards that are old.

> and even that is not supported.

xterm supports vt430 emulation. I use this semi regularly. I believe mintty also supports sixels, plus a handful of others. The libsixel website has a full list.

> And I can see why, why on earth would you want to be adding support for that in 2021?

You might want to read your own post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28856005 ).

What’s your great idea as opposed to sixels?