If only you could read the source to confirm for yourself or if the developer had a proven track record instead of being someone who just popped up on the scene for the first time…. Oh wait, you can look at the source and the developer has a proven track record maintaining iTerm2 for over a decade.

Your condescension is embarrassing as it shows you have no idea what you are talking about in this context.

You’re very focused on specifics, which aren’t paramount here. This is not the end of the story, it’s the beginning.

Not to mention iterm development has slowed a lot in recent years. Who knows how much longer the author will be around.

From: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/ai-hype/

“A terminal emulator is probably also a fairly bad place to implement this because it's probably one of the most privileged programs on a developer's machine. It deals with all the secrets in the world, and the threat that it could be used to upload them all to a third party is great enough that people are willing to switch away from it sight unseen.”

It’s important to call out poor judgment around development of our FLOSS tools, they are precious.