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Re:Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list) by vidarh on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:30PM (#27835713)
But who would expect Electron or web tech for a terminal?

Having written terminal code both in compiled and interpreted languages, and on machines about a thousand times slower than a typical modern machine, speed here is also much more down to algorithm choices - especially for rendering - than language.

I find the focus on FPS pretty odd as well, as really high update speeds for a terminal typically only comes into play if dumping huge amount of data to the terminal by accident, in which case typically handling scrolling properly is easily speeded up by skipping lines that need never be visible at all.

I do expect terminals I use to be low latency for normal operations, but that's a very different consideration.

Not objecting to your choice of Rust. Just like some others found it odd to highlight it near the top of your main page.

Re:Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list) by wffurr on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:33PM (#27835756)
I guess you missed the HN posts about another buzzy terminal app that is in fact written with Electron and boasts about extensible web tech as a feature: https://hyper.is/
Re:Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list) by vidarh on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:39PM (#27835820)
I might have suppressed it, as the very idea is the stuff of nightmares.

That said, I'll note that unlike Warp it will actually run on Linux...

Re:Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list) by timw4mail on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:40PM (#27835828)
They exist. Hyper is the most notable one using Electron.
Re:Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list) by drran on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:09PM (#27859257)
DomTerm and xterm.js are terminals for web.