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Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by paulv »

pyre wrote: post #2

How well does it deal with copious amounts of text scrolling across the screen. It's been a while since I've used it, but IIRC Gnome Terminal had big issues with this for a long time (due to the underlying library that they were using).

It's really bad. Not as bad as gnome-terminal back in the day (it's been fixed for a while), but it definitely can't keep up with a 'find /usr'.

(I'm running it on linux, ymmv).

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by mitchty »

asdf1234 wrote: post #65
michaelmior wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the majority of applications, I'd imagine there's a negligible performance difference. Besides, any app built on Electron will run infinitely faster than one which wasn't built at all since the developer didn't want to learn another language. I'm not saying Electron is suitable for everything, but I think it has its place.

> negligible performance difference Using Atom or VS Code instead of Emacs cuts my battery life by a few hours. The Spotify desktop app that uses a ton of JavaScript is also horribly inefficient and has a big impact on battery life. None of this is negligible.

On top of this, chrome/chromium versus safari is another 1-2 hours of battery. I think people vastly underestimate the energy requirements of web technologies.

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by MrTonyD »

netghost wrote: post #72
MrTonyD wrote: post #70

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Never heard of Acme -- can you elaborate?

It was an editor for Plan9. Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

Thanks...followed the Wikipedia link to the Rob Cox demo video. Mind blowing to have an editor as an OS filesystem that can intercept OS events. If I hadn't spent the last 20 years learning vi I would grab a copy and give it a try.

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by SwellJoe »

MrTonyD wrote: post #85
netghost wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was an editor for Plan9. Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

Thanks...followed the Wikipedia link to the Rob Cox demo video. Mind blowing to have an editor as an OS filesystem that can intercept OS events. If I hadn't spent the last 20 years learning vi I would grab a copy and give it a try.

Russ Cox, not Rob Cox. You may be intermingling Rob Pike and Russ Cox, who are both involved in Acme.

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by nathancahill »

sotojuan wrote: post #77
nathancahill wrote: post #10

You guys just can't stop making cool stuff can you? now.sh, now-serve, micro.. I'm not the biggest Node fan, but these are really well done. Execution on these ideas has always been 10/10.

I'm a big fan of their markdown semi-renderer. Is that open source?

Yeah, I like that too. Just emailed them about it.
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