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Terminals are helpful?
It's not clear what you're interested in here. Why use a terminal in emacs as opposed to a separate program? Why these over eshell?...
Can you call external programs like GCC with eshell?
Why are people downvoting this question? OP seems legitimately confused.
Yes? It's a shell
I have this funny anecdote.
A remote system I was working on has a malfunction: taskbar dead; windows blocked; super-key did’t activate anything. I had just a Emacs window open.
I ran eshell and then “shutdown -r now” and the system restarted.
Great moment with surprised colleagues :-) it was 2020