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Re:Hyper – A terminal emulator based on JavaScript, HTML and... by mihohl on Sunday January 29, 2017 @09:31AM (#13514257)
I mean, that looks awesome. But there is one question: WHY? I mean what's the benefit of rewriting something in HTML/JS when we already have that natively build in every operating system?
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Re:Hyper – A terminal emulator based on JavaScript, HTML and... by Rauchg on Sunday January 29, 2017 @02:29PM (#13516061)
Extensibility was a huge motivation behind it.

See my other answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516047

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