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The author refactors OS-specific terminal calls (raw mode, window size) into separate classes (UnixTerminal, MacOSTerminal, WindowsTerminal) using JNA to wrap native APIs including libc and kernel32, achieving working support on Linux, macOS, and Windows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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