A new terminal emulator named rubyterm has been developed, written entirely in Ruby without any C extensions. This project includes a pure-Ruby X11 client and font renderer, allowing it to function independently of traditional libraries like libvte. While still in its early stages, rubyterm is available as an installable gem and supports features such as truecolor, UTF-8, and damage-driven rendering for efficiency. The project is structured into reusable components, including a core engine and various backends for different display environments. AI
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