microsoft/terminal

The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

Developer toolsC++#console#terminal#cmd#wsl#windows-console

1.7 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 20, 2026.

About the project

Source code for Windows Terminal and the classic Windows console host conhost.exe: a modern terminal for Windows with tabs, themes, and configurability.

Useful for

Build Windows Terminal from source to test new features
Install the terminal via winget, Chocolatey, or Scoop
Study sample projects that consume the Windows Console API

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

4 stars so far today, about 11 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending C++ today: #12, +14 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 104,945
Stars in a day: 11
Forks: 9,605
Issues and pull requests: 19,552
Watchers: 1,368
Language: C++
License: MIT
Latest release: v1.25.1912.0 · July 16, 2026
Created: August 11, 2017
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 20, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #12, +14 stars

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