For those wondering, HTML/JS/CSS terminal. https://hyper.is/ gives more useful introduction.
Hyper 3.0.0
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Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#32I thought this was the Rust HTTP client/server [1]. I've never heard of this.
When two notable projects share the same name, it's confusing. One of these projects should consider rebranding.
[1] https://hyper.rs
Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#33I just don't understand the use case here. It's an Electron-based terminal... that has a thousand pretty themes, but lacks basic functionality like being able to expand your scroll buffer. It's just not usable as a daily driver.
I'm not trying to hate on Electron (VS Code is my main editor now, and I enjoy it). But I just don't see the point here other than, "Look what they wrote with Electron!". Is it the "social" aspect of posting color themes and seeing how many downloads you get, and I'm just old?
Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#34I gave up on Hyper about 8 months ago after only using it for a few weeks. 2.1 was close to unusable on Windows. Major prompt / cursor bugs (it would disappear all the time), ~200ms input latency (but a terminal's only job is to make typing feel awesome) and it took 5 seconds+ to open on an SSD. I reported a number of those issues but the maintainers didn't even respond even though people were commenting that it was…
Hyper is all I use on Mac OS but on Windows I had some trouble with it so I started using Terminus - https://github.com/Eugeny/terminus
Looking forward to trying out Hyper 3 on Windows when I get home :)
Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#35I gave up on Hyper about 8 months ago after only using it for a few weeks. 2.1 was close to unusable on Windows. Major prompt / cursor bugs (it would disappear all the time), ~200ms input latency (but a terminal's only job is to make typing feel awesome) and it took 5 seconds+ to open on an SSD. I reported a number of those issues but the maintainers didn't even respond even though people were commenting that it was…
Windows Terminal was just released yesterday, which might be a good option for you. It's even open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#36I just don't understand the use case here. It's an Electron-based terminal... that has a thousand pretty themes, but lacks basic functionality like being able to expand your scroll buffer. It's just not usable as a daily driver. I'm not trying to hate on Electron (VS Code is my main editor now, and I enjoy it). But I just don't see the point here other than, " Look what they wrote with Electron! ". Is it the "social"…
No youre not old, just wise. Terminals are actually pretty complex beasts and performance matters above all, closely followed by compatibility. I feel the same way as you.
Or maybe we're both just old. Lets chase the kids off our lawn, get some dr pepper and fire up the alphaservers?
Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree. iTerm2 has been doing rendering with opengl for years. If you're on OS X its unclear why something like Hyper is necessary.
I stopped using iTerm2 in favor of the default Terminal because iTerm2 has worse performance and latency [1], and I wasn't getting anything out of its additional features. I noticed an improvement going back to Terminal.app. YMMV of course; but if we're asking why Hyper is necessary, I'd like to ask the same question of iTerm2. [1]: https://danluu.com/term-latency/
iTerm2 has lots of features that Terminal.app lacks: https://www.iterm2.com/features.html
Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#38In before the JavaScript gripes begin. How about we skip the Electron whinging this time? I haven't switched to Hyper because I have found it a bit pokey and that doesn't work for me, but I'll still give this one a try. I'm curious to hear about any interesting reasons other people _have_ chosen Hyper, or particularly cool things it enables by being built on web technologies. Anybody?
been using it for over a year on my windows machine, never really had any issues. probably gonna try out the new microsoft terminal soon tho
Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#39I just don't understand the use case here. It's an Electron-based terminal... that has a thousand pretty themes, but lacks basic functionality like being able to expand your scroll buffer. It's just not usable as a daily driver. I'm not trying to hate on Electron (VS Code is my main editor now, and I enjoy it). But I just don't see the point here other than, " Look what they wrote with Electron! ". Is it the "social"…
Ditto here. Given how performance- and security intensive a terminal emulator is (who wants to add JavaScript injection to their list of server security worries?), writing one in Electron seems a bit nuts to me.
Re: Hyper 3.0.0
#40I gave up on Hyper about 8 months ago after only using it for a few weeks. 2.1 was close to unusable on Windows. Major prompt / cursor bugs (it would disappear all the time), ~200ms input latency (but a terminal's only job is to make typing feel awesome) and it took 5 seconds+ to open on an SSD. I reported a number of those issues but the maintainers didn't even respond even though people were commenting that it was…
Windows Terminal was just released yesterday, which might be a good option for you. It's even open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
Unfortunately that terminal requires an insider's version of Windows to run.
Enabling insiders means MS will track a bunch of data about you besides anonymous metrics and you can't opt out of it because insiders requests that info.
WSL v2 and / or that terminal sounds good but it may not be until Oct 2019 or Apr 2020 before the stable Windows channel sees it. They tend to release 2 major updates a year and if WSL v2 is only being released in June 2019 for insiders it's quite the push to have it ready by Oct 2019 for stable.