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Just from my basic understanding after working with sdl2 and gtk, sdl2 is more suitable for game development, It doesn't have standard set of UI elements. So every UI element, and interactions will have to be implemented by hand. Now imagine displaying a list view with huge number of items.

And the worst is, Terminals works with texts, sdl2, in my knowledge do not have proper way to display large amount of text, let alone select and copy.

There are probably other issues, these came from what I experienced



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