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Re:Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SS... by amasad on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:26PM (#12935053)
Interesting that you use hterm to power this. Does that mean you start a WebView. Or do you somehow have a virtual dom of sorts that renders to Obj-c view (a la react-native)?
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Re:Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SS... by carloscabanero on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:35PM (#12935127)
It is a WKWebView, and the way SSH or Mosh are connected is by just a simple descriptors system on top of it so that read and write operations can be done. So everything is really "unixy", you can send fprintf to the terminal, etc...

It proved to be fast enough, and it is still faster than anything else. I'm considering if building on top of HyperTerm at some point would be doable too :)

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Re:Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SS... by amasad on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:50PM (#12935222)
That would be awesome. There is already quite a community that sprung up around hyperterm.
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