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Originally Posted by JoppyFurr
Nope. I didn't consider porting any existing software.
One of the things I want to do with this project is to get a more in-depth understanding of how a terminal emulator works. I want to do this by doing things by hand, making my own mistakes, and learning from them.
Porting an existing program would be plenty quicker to get working. But I just don't think I'd have learned very much from doing that. While the end product will be a working terminal emulator either way, I'd like the experience of doing this from scratch.
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Good choice.
Although you don't mention it in your reasons, there are two other advantages:
You get only the fuctionality and features you want;
You know exactly what the dependencies are (and why).
PS: The suggestion given is a large body of code, not all that quick to port to anything.
So just keep on, keeping on.