Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by bezzi » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 12:25 AM UTC

Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal
rungoterminal.com

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by gravypod » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 1:42 AM UTC

I don't know how much of an advancement this is for a seasoned user, but I do think this would be a great learning tool since you can visually see all the commands generated by the terminal.

That's what shines in my eyes from this project.

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by ubertaco » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 1:45 AM UTC

It's a paid terminal emulator, written (by all appearances) in some kind of Electron-like (so a much much higher footprint), with a GUI for what can already be done via aliases, functions, and scripts.

And no telling how well $TERM detection works (show me vim! Show me something that wants 256 colors!)

If it was free, I might still not use it, because my terminal emulator needs to be lightweight and bulletproof, not heavy and shiny. A terminal emulator is a hammer -- simple, solid, good for constant use -- not an art piece.

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by farresito » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 1:47 AM UTC

Interesting concept, but I'm not sure who this is directed towards. I can see some people using this, but not that much. (experienced) Developers will naturally go towards the features that shells like bash/zsh offer (e.g. aliases), and most inexperienced developers... well, I don't see them putting that much effort into configuring their terminal, and besides this, most people in the Linux world will hardly pay for something that they can get for free from somewhere else, unless it really is a necessity, which doesn't seem to be the case here. That said, I wish you the best on that. Always good to see different stuff.

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by delish » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 1:50 AM UTC

If you're like me, you'll think, "aliases!"

But, the shell is a bunch of nontrivial things to learn. Tools like Go Terminal_ could make a less discontinuous learning path for shell. I recently had to teach[0] someone a bit of shell, and I kept tripping over explanations of:

    command -[flags] arg1 arg2 arg3 | something else

Merely explaining that -xvf modified tar and how was a challenge. After I explained it, the user appended -xvf to cat in a different session. The above line would be a dozen lines of code in a blub. Shell takes a long time to grok.

All that said, I wouldn't call Go Terminal_ "efficient" ;).

[0] I did a terrible job.

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by saboot » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 1:51 AM UTC

I might not see a developer using this, but an administrator I could. Needing to run one-off scripts and server management. However only if it would work remotely, and with host specific configuration and command options.

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by philtar » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 2:03 AM UTC

ubertaco wrote: post #3

It's a paid terminal emulator, written (by all appearances) in some kind of Electron-like (so a much much higher footprint), with a GUI for what can already be done via aliases, functions, and scripts. And no telling how well $TERM detection works (show me vim! Show me something that wants 256 colors!) If it was free, I might still not use it, because my terminal emulator needs to be lightweight and bulletproof, not…

I think you missed the gigantic "Download" button you see when you first open up the page.

That said, probably still won't use it. Too much whitespace and too shiny for my liking

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by sdegutis » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 2:04 AM UTC

delish wrote: post #5

If you're like me, you'll think, "aliases!" But, the shell is a bunch of nontrivial things to learn. Tools like Go Terminal_ could make a less discontinuous learning path for shell. I recently had to teach[0] someone a bit of shell, and I kept tripping over explanations of: command -[flags] arg1 arg2 arg3 | something else Merely explaining that -xvf modified tar and how was a challenge. After I explained it, the user…

> But, the shell is a bunch of nontrivial things to learn.

Yeah but if you're gonna learn this trade, you kinda gotta learn these things eventually, so why settle for a pacifier indefinitely?

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by dc2 » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 2:05 AM UTC

This appears superficial, and that this is paid as well with no (visible) published open source turns me off. The mistakes in the GIF communicate that this was a slapped-together product.

Additionally, requiring mouse clicks for a visual replacement of the alias command with a few extra bells and whistles is not the greatest appeal to a community of developers.

I hope that the fact that this was written in Go does not outweigh its shortcomings in the eyes of HN.

Re: Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal

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Post by zackelan » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 2:07 AM UTC

philtar wrote: post #7

ubertaco wrote: post #3

It's a paid terminal emulator, written (by all appearances) in some kind of Electron-like (so a much much higher footprint), with a GUI for what can already be done via aliases, functions, and scripts. And no telling how well $TERM detection works (show me vim! Show me something that wants 256 colors!) If it was free, I might still not use it, because my terminal emulator needs to be lightweight and bulletproof, not…

I think you missed the gigantic "Download" button you see when you first open up the page. That said, probably still won't use it. Too much whitespace and too shiny for my liking

So I can download it for free, or I can buy "1 year free update" for $10.

They need a much better explanation of what exactly I'm paying for, and what I'm limited to with the free version.