Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron • Hacker News Board

How's the performance? GNU yes can produce output at more than 10GB/s. Does it cope well with that? How about lots of output that contains lots of escape sequences?

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by teekert » Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 10:35 AM UTC

coppolaemilio wrote: post #3

shockone wrote: post #2

Hi, author of Upterm here. Ask me anything.

Windows version soon? :)

One that easily uses Bash on Ubuntu on Windows??

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by Philipp__ » Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 10:38 AM UTC

Electron... no thanks! I will wait for Alacritty, in the meantime iTerm2 and Terminal.app are there...

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by shockone » Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 10:38 AM UTC

coppolaemilio wrote: post #3

shockone wrote: post #2

Hi, author of Upterm here. Ask me anything.

Windows version soon? :)

I'm afraid it's not going to happen any time soon, if at all. But even if it does happen, it won't be cmd.exe or PowerShell support, but rather some kind of POSIX shell for Windows.

Re: Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

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Post by joantune » Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 10:40 AM UTC

Philipp__ wrote: post #8

Electron... no thanks! I will wait for Alacritty, in the meantime iTerm2 and Terminal.app are there...

I really think the auto completion benefits can easily outweigh the performance penalty of running a term on top of Chromium