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Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

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Re: Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

#12

Rio is the terminal multiplexer in Plan 9

The confusion with Plan 9 is probably part of the reason this jumped onto the front page. Besides that name clash, it apparently competes with another terminal emulator that was creatively named "vt100". Scrolling over the page I did a double take when I saw the benchmark. No way a vt100 can do 221 MiB/s! Who even types that fast anyway?

Very chatty build scripts for one. I remember reading the build instructions for clisp many years ago, and it very explicitly told you to run the build in xterm and not something like gnome-terminal, because xterm was way way faster at getting all the output through.

Re: Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

#14

Have a app that use swiftterm currently and want to try libghostty but no time Turned out there are so many choices for the terminal engine The clear C ABI sound good to me and will try it if time allows Great work!

I noticed someone has already adapted libghostty for Swift/SwiftUI: https://github.com/Lakr233/libghostty-spm

EDIT: Apparently an official version is actually coming soon: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2072724957902381319

Re: Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

#15
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kids who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat names we already used. Before you name something, google for it. Here in Dublin, Ireland, there’s a store that sells stuff for small kids and their parents called “Baby Doc”. I wonder if someone already told them.

Let's put down the sledgehammer and firehose when attempting specific goals. You can do a Wikipedia search, trademark searches in your target/home country, domain registrar checks, and search on Google Maps, OSM, Apple Maps. There are lots of targeted ways to find companies by name. Now if you find something unused, you may be wise to check UrbanDictionary, KnowYourMeme, and your 12-year-old niece. And eventually, Go…

I was only half joking about opening a pub next to it and calling it Papa Doc.

Re: Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

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post #14

Have a app that use swiftterm currently and want to try libghostty but no time Turned out there are so many choices for the terminal engine The clear C ABI sound good to me and will try it if time allows Great work!

I noticed someone has already adapted libghostty for Swift/SwiftUI: https://github.com/Lakr233/libghostty-spm EDIT: Apparently an official version is actually coming soon: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2072724957902381319

Thanks for sharing

I tried some ghostty based terminal and find weird copy/selection issues or maybe I tried too early

Perhaps that because it seems bypass too much layer to get gpu rendering directly

Re: Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

#17

Rio is the terminal multiplexer in Plan 9

...although I must admit this seems like a good project that is helping lots of developers. Apologies for the knee-jerk reaction.

It's nice to see it running in novel places like the Steam Deck, Windows, and FreeBSD.

Are there any examples of the browser support advertised on the front page?

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