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Re:The Hyper Plan by daveloyall on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:40PM (#12654410)
Does anybody else frequently immediately close the tab when you find out that idea involves clientside javascript?

But, this one is about a terminal.[1]

So I read on... and I found this:

    > Slowly but surely, Electron-based applications
    > have started to dominate many of our workflows. 
You have just announced that there is a horde of pod-people roaming the internet. I'm going to go stock up on canned goods.

    > This is a goal worth pursuing in the interest of sane
    > window management, agility, built-in logging of launched 
    > applications, engineering exploration but most importantly
    > the preservation of our freedoms.
Wtf? You spawn a shell while sitting on top of a writhing swarm of multithreaded mystery code so thick that stack overflow is a thing, in 2016, and you call that freedom? What the actual f*?

    > In a world increasingly encumbered by app stores, developer
    > licenses and approval processes, a hyper reboot is worth 
    > trying out. And who knows, 2017 might by the year of the 
    > Linux desktop!
You call starting up 400 MLOC to open a shell a reboot?

Have you tried Forth?

I am so sorry for the abuse. I truly am. I know that you are a person, doing a thing. But from my point of view, you are trudging blindly further into the swamp, not out of it, and you are carrying a flag and singing along the way.

We need to talk!

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1: Or something? Note to author: After the first skim, it wasn't clear if your project is a terminal emulator or a shell...[2] The first screen shot looks like a shell, the one with a webpage looks like a terminal emulator. (Spoiler: it's a terminal emulator. It also apparently hijacks the command line to support URLs as commands??)

2. Oh, they have a chat room. I'll just go ask them. Uh-oh, they don't say what protocol I should use to connect to the chat room... That's a bad sign. Ah, it's a web app and I have to provide my email address. No, thank you.

Re:The Hyper Plan by marmaduke on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:58PM (#12655071)
Agree all around. I recently regressed to the Linux text mode ptty for terminal work. I can't imagine running a browser to have a shell.
Re:The Hyper Plan by yladiz on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:53PM (#12655529)
To clear up the confusion about running the browser (I don't like the idea either, but don't want to spread FUD): the terminal is an Electron application, and when you type the URL, it runs it as an Electron process. You don't seem to need a browser because the terminal already supports browsing.