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Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by phist_mcgee »

smarkov wrote: post #70
wackget wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still trendy to hate on Electron? Give it up. The ship has sailed. I like native apps as much as anyone else but you've got to realise the absolute clusterfuck that is cross-platform development. Plus building rich GUIs is actually feasible when using tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS).

> tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS) You had me until this part. If those 3 were meant to build rich GUIs we wouldn't have new JS frameworks and a load of bundling tools coming out every year. They were meant to give documents structure and style, that's it. We molded them into the monstrosity they are today. The appeal is not that they're a pleasure making GUIs with, it's that you go…

Yeah and C was designed for writing operating systems on mini computers and now we've got c++, what's your point?

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by eviks »

wackget wrote: post #59
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #3

Built on Electron? Hard pass. The scourge of the modern age.

It's still trendy to hate on Electron? Give it up. The ship has sailed. I like native apps as much as anyone else but you've got to realise the absolute clusterfuck that is cross-platform development. Plus building rich GUIs is actually feasible when using tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS).

There are plenty native terminal ships sailing nearby, so feel free to dunk on the ugly one

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by eviks »

spullara wrote: post #34

Is anyone else put off by infinitely customizable things? I used to love this stuff when I was a kid but now I just want things to work well out of the box.

The opposite, and customization doesn't prevent things from "working well", but it does allow you to reach "working great"

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by abathur »

pxc wrote: post #15
sixothree wrote: post #7

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Oof. That’s some toxic conversation.

I feel bad for people whose projects get shredded on HN, especially from a place of prejudice, like reflexive Electron hate. But when I actually tried a bunch of Electron-based terminal emulators on Mac a few years ago... they all felt awful . They were slow in ways I did not realize terminal emulators even could be, and they often had extension ecosystems that were similarly slow and also buggy as hell. Maybe things…

I had a similar experience.

It doesn't help that Terminal.app is incredibly performant and stable. Even when I found a cross-platform terminal with a nice feature set, watching it jank around while some build spams 50k lines of output would quickly burst that bubble.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by bombolo »

nicoburns wrote: post #57
gymbeaux wrote: post #56

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Warp looks cool but surely you can get that sort of autocomplete/“intellisense” (for the C# folk) in any terminal e.g. Konsole or iTerm and save some money

Proper multiline editing with full mouse support is the main thing I want that warp has that I haven’t been able find in any other terminal. No enough to make me switch to a proprietary terminal though.

> Proper multiline editing with full mouse support

ctrl+x cltr+e

Works on every terminal. Vim and EMACS do support the mouse, you can set your editor to a graphical one.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by benjaminwootton »

Quite a negative comment thread. Isn't the spirit of the site to find what's interesting in a new project rather than say it's already been done and assume the worst motivations of the developer? I for one am glad that people build tools such as terminal apps as free and open source.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by danw1979 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #13
sixothree wrote: post #7

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Oof. That’s some toxic conversation.

What's toxic about it? Negative , sure, but it's not toxic to make a substantiated negative comment.

There’s a bit of ideological passion towards efficient computing and maybe that resulted in some hurty egos but I thought it was substantive.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by illiarian »

wackget wrote: post #59
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #3

Built on Electron? Hard pass. The scourge of the modern age.

It's still trendy to hate on Electron? Give it up. The ship has sailed. I like native apps as much as anyone else but you've got to realise the absolute clusterfuck that is cross-platform development. Plus building rich GUIs is actually feasible when using tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS).

> tools that are actually meant to build rich GUIs (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS).

These were never meant to build rich UIs. They were meant to build a text page with a few images. That's it.

There's a reason why every single UI framework for these tools re-invents the same primitive controls like avatars and tabs.

Re: Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app

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Post by efrecon »

eddyg wrote: post #26
kitsunesoba wrote: post #11

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Maybe my needs are just too basic, but I've not found much reason to look beyond Apple Terminal, GNOME Terminal, etc. Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown, but I don't find that worth the quirks that come with e.g. iTerm2.

True Color support is a big enough reason to switch from Terminal.app to iTerm2.app. But beyond the cool Quake-style "hot key" overlay terminal that's always at the ready, once you start using other features of iTerm, you'll really appreciate all the amazing features it has! For example: - being able to press Cmd-Shift-E to quickly show/hide timestamp overlays for your entire scrollback - pressing Opt-Cmd-B to open t…

What a fantastic bunch of features! What Linux terminal has a similar offering?
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