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This looks very well executed and really cool, but I'm honestly really tired of all the node/electron terminals. In its favor, this project looks a lot more clean and less opinionated than that 'Black Screen' monstrocity.
I'm tired of node/electron anything.
As an Acme user, I find the extensibility feature very interesting: Once you are used to Acme's contextual (and programmable) handling of text, it's hard to go back to a normal terminal.
Never heard of Acme -- can you elaborate?
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)
The folks who make HyperTerm might have something to say about your product naming... http://www.hilgraeve.com/hyperterminal/ Edit: I'm surprised more people in the HN crowd aren't familiar with HyperTerm (Yes that is the name and what everyone called it for many many years) It was bundled with Windows up to 7, and is still used heavily in industrial control areas.
That's "HyperTerminal" not "HyperTerm".
The free version was bundled with Windows for 10+ years, and although it wasn't a particularly great terminal, its ubiquity came in handy when trying to bring new people into the bulletin board system world.
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Electron by itself weighs in around 100mb. iTerm2 is a packed to the gills with features terminal that is 13mb.
My iTerm process is using about 170mb of memory, though that's admittedly less than half of what Slack is using. Big picture, with 8gb of ram, this is not a problem.
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Besides iTerm2 maybe. Default config is very similar to the built-in OS X terminal.
I would not recommend iTerm2 to a beginner. The iTerm developers believe in the kitchen sink approach to preferences, which is not very beginner-friendly. And there's not much reason to use iTerm2 in general anyway now that Terminal.app has mouse support, I'm only aware of a few relatively esoteric features that iTerm2 has that Terminal doesn't (support for colors outside of the 256-color palette, and built-in suppor…
Another JS terminal emulator, https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hter...
You guys just can't stop making cool stuff can you? now.sh, now-serve, micro.. I'm not the biggest Node fan, but these are really well done. Execution on these ideas has always been 10/10.
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Does it though? iTerm2 is the most feature-rich terminal I've ever used, and even then it's several orders of magnitude smaller then Electron (cloc says it's around 111K lines of Objective-C, with around 38K more lines split across Python and C++).
Maybe it's not better. That wasn't really my point though. I'm just saying that LOC is a fairly useless metric for evaluating software. Especially from an end user perspective.
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I'm tired of node/electron anything.
I use two tools daily that are built on Electron and they are great. Not only that, but it's never obvious they run on Electron. I'm curious, what do you hate so much about it?