Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

osener wrote: post #2

This is the first GUI app I've seen built with WebGPU. This is pretty interesting, could this be the future of cross platform GUI frameworks?

It's only available on mac

Re: Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

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Post by pastacacioepepe » Wed, May 24, 2023, 2:56 PM UTC

dagurp wrote: post #4

osener wrote: post #2

This is the first GUI app I've seen built with WebGPU. This is pretty interesting, could this be the future of cross platform GUI frameworks?

It's only available on mac

Check the roadmap, it's macOS desktop -> web browser -> linux desktop -> windows desktop -> nintendo switch (??)

Re: Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

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Post by stickyricky » Wed, May 24, 2023, 2:56 PM UTC

What's the implication of using WebGPU? Better terminals in the browser? Better electron terminals? A quirk for better native portability?

Re: Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

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Post by norman784 » Wed, May 24, 2023, 2:57 PM UTC

osener wrote: post #2

This is the first GUI app I've seen built with WebGPU. This is pretty interesting, could this be the future of cross platform GUI frameworks?

AFAIK wezterm[1] and warp[2] are built on top of the WebGPU

[1] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/

[2] https://www.warp.dev

Re: Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

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Post by graypegg » Wed, May 24, 2023, 3:00 PM UTC

Cool! Porting to the web is an interesting idea. I can’t help but imagine going back to the 70s and trying to show someone that yes, everyone has this full colour, mouse-supporting, GUI app platform accessible on any device and interlinked between billions of similar interactive documents from around the world… but it was really important that we set up a TTY. The smug (or horrified) look on their face would be priceless.

Re: Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

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Post by norman784 » Wed, May 24, 2023, 3:02 PM UTC

My question is what's their selling point, I used the past few years few terminals that have pretty good features:

- Alacritty minimal and blazingly fast

- Wezterm with batteries included

- Warp even batteries included

Re: Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

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Post by vlakreeh » Wed, May 24, 2023, 3:03 PM UTC

stickyricky wrote: post #6

What's the implication of using WebGPU? Better terminals in the browser? Better electron terminals? A quirk for better native portability?

Probably portability, it's a pretty good low (but not too low) abstraction layer over the systems preferred graphics API. I'm not a graphics programmer but my understanding is it's closer to vulkan or metal in terms of control over the hardware compared to OpenGL, which has rocky support on Mac now anyways.