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Re: Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line

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A windows native app? Or an osx one? Linux? Playstation 5 maybe?

Yes, a native application for each major operating system, that respects the OS's UI guidelines, and runs efficiently.

That would take 20x more work just to do a few OSs if were even possible, which it isn't.

Re: Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line

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As we know, defaults are powerful. Defaults that destroy privacy for one of the last trustworthy local-first interfaces left are quite informative.

Neither sync nor chatGPT are on by default in Raycast.

They have some 'splainin to do then, on their home page. Not to mention, I don't even want my local apps to have the potential to do it.

Re: Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line

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Neither sync nor chatGPT are on by default in Raycast.

They have some 'splainin to do then, on their home page. Not to mention, I don't even want my local apps to have the potential to do it.

If you move the goalpost even more, it's gonna clip of bounds.

Re: Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line

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Yes, a native application for each major operating system, that respects the OS's UI guidelines, and runs efficiently.

That would take 20x more work just to do a few OSs if were even possible, which it isn't.

Somehow we did this for 30 years, but now that Electron exists, it's impossible?

Fine. Pick a platform to support.

Re: Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line

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Spoilers II and III: > There's telemetry (and) > a terms of service to agree to

Telemetry is completely optional and anonymous (and we provide a switch to turn it off when you launch the app).

No telemetry is anonymous, these days it's trivial to associate an IP with any number of personally identifying factors. All you need is partners.

Re: Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line

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I love the command line, and I doubt I'll use this terminal, but "each command and its output is a separate box" is a way of using a terminal that I've long wished for. My day is full of `clear && bazel build`, not because I want to clear my history, but because I want to treat the build output as a single unit.

warp (warp.dev) does this

yeah, though unlike wave, warp is not open source and only really works on mac

Re: Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line

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That would take 20x more work just to do a few OSs if were even possible, which it isn't.

Somehow we did this for 30 years, but now that Electron exists, it's impossible? Fine. Pick a platform to support.

When did we do it 30 years ago? With java?

There were many attempts and electron beats them all.

Re: Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line

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Somehow we did this for 30 years, but now that Electron exists, it's impossible? Fine. Pick a platform to support.

When did we do it 30 years ago? With java? There were many attempts and electron beats them all.

What I meant is that somehow companies released native applications for a multitude of operating systems in years past. Internet Explorer on Solaris, Windows, MacOS. Photoshop and AutoCAD on IRIX, Windows, MacOS. Netscape Navigator on anything with a screen and a keyboard. That's just the stuff I used off the top of my head.
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