Re:The Hyper Plan
by perlgeek on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:45PM
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When I first read about Hyperterm, I was pretty sure I wouldn't use a terminal emulator that uses a browser. Heavy-handed and a security nightmare.
But eventually I head a podcast[^1] about it, and it started to make sense. It's nearly all about hackability. If you simply compare the number of people that are comfortable with adding UI elements to a native application in GTK or QT or whatnot, to those that are comfortable with enhancing a web application, it suddenly makes sense.
Also the design of Hyper is one where everything goes through events, which you can intercept (and possibly re-emit) in extensions, so you don't even need nasty DOM hacking or text parsing to write extensions/plugins.
So now I'm still skeptical, but I also see the upsides. I guess my next step should be to actually try it :-)
At least when a Linux version becomes available...
But eventually I head a podcast[^1] about it, and it started to make sense. It's nearly all about hackability. If you simply compare the number of people that are comfortable with adding UI elements to a native application in GTK or QT or whatnot, to those that are comfortable with enhancing a web application, it suddenly makes sense.
[1]: https://changelog.com/213/
Also the design of Hyper is one where everything goes through events, which you can intercept (and possibly re-emit) in extensions, so you don't even need nasty DOM hacking or text parsing to write extensions/plugins.
So now I'm still skeptical, but I also see the upsides. I guess my next step should be to actually try it :-) At least when a Linux version becomes available...