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Reevaluating the Use of tmux in Development Workflows

By

elashri

10mo ago· 7 min readenOpinion

Summary

The article discusses the author's shift away from using tmux, a terminal multiplexer they had relied on for over seven years, after encountering a GitHub issue highlighting its unnecessary overhead and complexity. The piece reflects on the potential inefficiencies of multiplexers and explores alternatives for development workflows.

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I had the exact same response whenever someone would argue against using tmux.
For context, I've been a huge fan of tmux and have been using it as a daily part of my workflow for 7+ years.
In summary: multiplexers add unnecessary overhead, suffer from a complexity cascade, because they actually have to tran
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replacing tmux in my dev workflow

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