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Been hard at work on a new rendering engine for Wave Terminal ( https://github.com/wavetermdev/waveterm ). Coded up a quick proof of concept for 4th of July showing fireworks rende…

Interesting take! By implementing our UI in React, we're hoping to make it significantly easier and more accessible to write cross-platform terminal extensions (and renderers / app…

Hah, 100% not a paid promotion, although it is kinda awesome that you think it is! We were thrilled with the coverage (our first article!) after we soft launched on /r/opensource.

Hah, we did not come up with the headline :). Really the vision for Wave is to have an out-of-the-box excellent terminal experience that's consistent across all of the machines tha…

Wave is a terminal, so you're free to use any editor you'd like, including vim, emacs or ed. We just provide another option for users who don't find vim or emacs very intuitive. I'…

Telemetry is completely optional and anonymous (and we provide a switch to turn it off when you launch the app).

Wave uses electron for rendering, but a Golang backend for networking and heavy lifting. This gives Wave the ability to be cross platform and still efficient under the hood.

We're looking into Wails! Definite benefits with tighter integration with Go (and we can ditch the node server).

absolutely no telemetry in the helper, full stop. you can inspect the code yourself. we do hear the feedback though and are working on a popup/notification that will prompt you bef…

yes! would love to do this. the biggest issue is security and how to sandbox that html from the rest of the terminal. we have some ideas on how to do this (iframes, postMessage, et…

agree in principle, but i will split some hairs here. if you type "ls" into your local terminal, there's an implicit agreement that it will run the remote "ls" program. the helper …

the helper program is completely open source (waveshell) it is similar to the shell scripts or additions to your rc files that other modern terminals might add when connecting to a…

i think the terminal can be much better than it is today. i quit my job and started working on this full time after making the prototype because i was convinced that universal hist…

ya, i love iTerm. been a loyal user for more than 10 years. that is until Wave of course :)

i'd love to figure out what is causing this as we haven't been able to repro it. if you don't mind adding a comment to the issue with anything novel or interesting in your .bashrc …

zsh support and international character support are our top two issues right now. I know the intl chars can work, we just didn't do enough international testing before launch. sorr…

Would love to get any suggestions for what people would like to see rendered inline in the terminal. Things like graphs, audio/video streams, filesystem view (that supports drag&dr…

I used Discord for Wave because it is real-time, free, and has a lot of community and auto-moderation facilities built in. It also seems to scale well to large communities. Because…

I hear you. That is a problem with a lot of (bad) UIs and why I think people love text-UI (because it is harder to screw up). First, I don't want to get rid of the text UI -- you c…

Haven't tested it myself, but some people have gotten it to run on Windows via WSL. We'll have a true Windows port at some point as well.

a couple that have come up a lot in my talks with devs who use the CLI, but don't necessary live in it are: copy/paste, dealing with tmux, getting disconnected, using 'vi' remotely…

All of the tty processing, networking, and stream processing is done in Go, so it is fast. There is obviously more performance work to do, but in some situations our model can actu…

https://waveterm.dev has some screenshots. Also checkout our twitter feed https://twitter.com/wavetermdev . I couldn't post the homepage as the main link because of a dup check on …

Yes, and we own commandline.dev! I wanted, and got, the email address mike (at) commandline.dev :)