170+ MB resident after subtracting shared pages to show a single terminal. Added a couple more tabs and it grew to 200 without any other interactions. seems like a lot to me.
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#42Honest question, why does everyone uses discord for community space nowadays? What happened to product forums that could be easily found in a web search?
It's unnerving, especially for open source projects. The idea of open source extends beyond the license. It is as much about the community as it is the software. Discord is the worst possible place from an open-ness standpoint. I don't use software that uses it.
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#43why is a terminal venture backed
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 history, inline rendering, and persistent sessions just needed to happen. that being said, building a new terminal is hard and requires direction and a full-time team. these things are expensive and venture money will help us bring this idea to life quickly.
i also want to point out that the main competitor in this space is also venture backed and is closed source. we need the money to keep up (with help from the OSS community) and make sure there is a great open alternative in the market.
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#44Interestingly enough, I had this recommended to me by a friend within the past month.
For those that use it, is there any reason for me to switch from gnome-terminal?
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#45why is a terminal venture backed
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 history, inline rendering, and persistent sessions just needed to happen. that being said, building a new terminal is hard and requires direction and a full-time team. these things are expensive and venture money will help us bring this idea to…
I dig it, honestly. Just surprised to see that in teh footer. It's kind of a dealbreaker for me though because so much of my workflow relies on tmux. I tend to align more with the camp that a terminal emulator is just a window into another world, not the world in and of itself. Makes it really easy to move between machines, too. mosh + tmux is half way there.
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#46I'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 bei…
> […] I ssh'd to another machine and was slightly disconcerted to see it installing software on first connection? That sounds really disturbing and immediately turns me off this project (as well as not having the need for a VC-backed terminal).
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 remote machine to support advanced features. the helper does not need any additional permissions, does not open any ports, runs only for the duration of the connection, and communicates exclusively via stdout/stdin over your standard ssh connection.
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#47"Cross-platform" but works only with MacOS and Linux, you should change the wording until it is cross-platform.
Cross platform doesn't mean all platforms.
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#48> We’re proudly built on Electron (just like VSCode, Slack, and Discord) with all of the network code and heavy lifting done in a local Go backend. This enables us to deliver a consistent cross-platform experience and the ability to leverage high-quality web components for our UI and plugins.
For my curiosity, why electron in a day when Tauri exists, or Wails since you seem to already be in the golang ecosystem?
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#49I can see this is built on Electron.
It has tabs, but I'm using the i3 tiling window manager and Alacritty. This setup basically removes the need for tabs, so any terminal app with tabs would essentially get in the way.
I switch between windows with the keyboard.
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#50Downloaded the MacOS application and gave it a go. Tried to add a connection to a remote FreeBSD server, using ssh key auth, and got an error:
error connecting to remote: invalid packet received from mshell client: raw[Bad : modifier in $ '~'.]
Also tried the default at setup 'sudo' for local, but the window to input the password wouldn't keep focus, so I could never input the password.