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Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Post by sawka »

nox100 wrote: post #19

This looks really interesting! My first thought is, how often does all the structure you added get in the way? With plain text (most terminals), it's easy to grab any chunk of text. With structured text, UI elements often get in the way. As an example, in Chrome's devtools console, it's frustrating that for (let i = 0; i produces this 0 VM45:1 1 VM45:1 2 VM45:1 3 VM45:1 4 VM45:1 instead of this 0 1 2 3 4 When I try t…

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 can always render your commands using the traditional terminal interface. We just want to provide an option to display the output in a richer way. I think Github does a good job of this. You can view a file with line numbers and annotations on the side, but copy/paste won't grab that content because of how the HTML is structured. We hope be similarly attentive to things like that (but of course it is still a WIP).

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Post by esimkowitz »

jackofalltrades wrote: post #18

Honest question, why does everyone uses discord for community space nowadays? What happened to product forums that could be easily found in a web search?

Moderation in Discord is much easier than on self hosted platforms. It’s also free, which helps.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Post by sawka »

jackofalltrades wrote: post #18

Honest question, why does everyone uses discord for community space nowadays? What happened to product forums that could be easily found in a web search?

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 you asked, I think it is fair game to share our discord link here: https://discord.gg/XfvZ334gwU

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Post by solarkraft »

zerojames wrote: post #7

> We don’t require an email, login, or payment to use our terminal (it is free as in speech and as in beer). This excites me. I was excited to try a new terminal last week and I had to sign up. I wouldn't do that, so I went back to the default macOS one. I'll give Wave Term a try! It's clear you have put a lot of thought into the product and its delivery after reading your message above -- it is noted and appreciated…

> so I went back to the default macOS one

I find iTerm to be the standard among macOS developers.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Post by andrewaylett »

I'm in the same boat as many -- not particularly excited by the idea of a new terminal, but curious enough to take a look and (unusually) a smidge interested after seeing the website. Well done, you've got further with me than most "reinvent the terminal" projects :).

Issue 88 is a blocker, though, I'm afraid. I may be monolingual, but I still need to be able to use "international" characters.

In the interests of being interested, I did install the cask and I have some feedback :P.

I have four symbols printed on my (Macbook Pro, UK) keyboard that don't render in the output: "±§€£". Curiously, they do render in the input.

My profile files are apparently too big for Wave to process. So I ssh'd to another machine and was slightly disconcerted to see it installing software on first connection? Not something I expected, I'm afraid.

In conclusion: I can't use it, and I'm not sure I want to if it's going to automatically install software on other machines.

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Post by sawka »

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&drop from your local machine), graphviz, pdfs. Maybe a graphical way to view a JIRA or Github issue and add a comment? Visual diff? Let me know what you think?

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Post by wffurr »

sneak wrote: post #2

I’m not in the market for a new terminal right now, but I dig your announcement: you explain the license, the languages in the stack, and the future revenue model, which are my first questions whenever evaluating something like this.

Thanks for mentioning the revenue model. I missed it in the announcement. Saw on the site they were VC backed and spent a while wondering “what’s the play”.

Since this can run entirely locally, this might be the first “reimagine the terminal” app I can actually use for work!

Re: Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

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Post by zerojames »

solarkraft wrote: post #24
zerojames wrote: post #7

> We don’t require an email, login, or payment to use our terminal (it is free as in speech and as in beer). This excites me. I was excited to try a new terminal last week and I had to sign up. I wouldn't do that, so I went back to the default macOS one. I'll give Wave Term a try! It's clear you have put a lot of thought into the product and its delivery after reading your message above -- it is noted and appreciated…

> so I went back to the default macOS one I find iTerm to be the standard among macOS developers.

I am regularly behind the trends :)
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