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Hyper 1.0.0

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Re: Hyper 1.0.0

#31

Erm... What is it? I've clicked through several pages and still don't know, aside from the fact that apparently it extends the command line in some way. But I might just be missing something.

According to their site[0], Hyper is a terminal emulator (like xterm) written 100% in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is released under the MIT License.

This is definitely not obvious from the release notes.

[0] https://hyper.is/

Re: Hyper 1.0.0

#32
post #6

So let me get this straight. This is a mini-webserver written in Javascript running the terminal as a webapp in a mini-webbrowser, right? This makes sense why? On the other hand: My favorite iOS SSH/Mosh client seems to be built on top of this and it's awesome.

It makes sense because JavaScript has, through several bizarre turns of events, become the language du jour , which means all sort of clueless people are falling over themselves to abuse it in increasingly convoluted ways, so that the clueless people in corporate HR who've been told "We need someone who is a JavaScript rockstar!" can be wowed by the description of some nightmarish contraption that "really takes insan…

JavaScript has become the PHP of ten years ago.

Runs everywhere (client and server), is the language picked up by beginners, and is abused to fit every square peg into a round hole.

Re: Hyper 1.0.0

#33
I mean, I don't get how your supposed to run all these web browser based apps on a mac, when you know, the default mac has 8gb... chrome alone is taking up half that already.

Re: Hyper 1.0.0

#34
I'm incredibly confused about why I should switch from iTerm. If you've been using Hyper, can you tell me why you switched and what was better?

Re: Hyper 1.0.0

#36
post #6

So let me get this straight. This is a mini-webserver written in Javascript running the terminal as a webapp in a mini-webbrowser, right? This makes sense why? On the other hand: My favorite iOS SSH/Mosh client seems to be built on top of this and it's awesome.

This makes sense because the authors were comfortable writing apps this way. At least they started it on a stack that has the potential to be multi platform. I see way too many nice / stylish apps released as OSX only.

Re: Hyper 1.0.0

#37
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try out conemu https://conemu.github.io/ for windows. Its great because I prefer to use git bash on windows, and you can default it and switch easily between that or powershell or cmd or WSL

A lot of people suggest CMDER these days. Looks like it is a fork of ConEmu.

It's just ConEmu packaged with some additional utilities like clink and a custom launcher. Actually quite nice since you can update to the latest version of ConEmu with no issues.

Re: Hyper 1.0.0

#38
post #6

So let me get this straight. This is a mini-webserver written in Javascript running the terminal as a webapp in a mini-webbrowser, right? This makes sense why? On the other hand: My favorite iOS SSH/Mosh client seems to be built on top of this and it's awesome.

It makes sense because JavaScript has, through several bizarre turns of events, become the language du jour , which means all sort of clueless people are falling over themselves to abuse it in increasingly convoluted ways, so that the clueless people in corporate HR who've been told "We need someone who is a JavaScript rockstar!" can be wowed by the description of some nightmarish contraption that "really takes insan…

You know what's tiring? People getting out of their way to gratuitously criticize the collective effort of a coordinated group of passionate people who just want to have fun reinventing the wheel.

Re: Hyper 1.0.0

#39

I'm incredibly confused about why I should switch from iTerm. If you've been using Hyper, can you tell me why you switched and what was better?

- looks nicer

- easier to customize (at least for me)

- runs super smooth (not that iTerm was slow or anything)

- I'd have to confirm, but a lot syntax highlighting and things that I just want to "work" out of the box seemed more applicable to Hyper than iTerm

- extensions (not sure if iTerms extension community could rival npm)

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