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Re:Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Li... by cassianoleal on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @09:37PM (#38704821)
> the frontend can drop frames, while the Go backend is buffering the stream

Surely that's not great. Dropped frames are terrible for following what's happening on the screen and even worse for scrolling.

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Re:Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Li... by em-bee on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @10:41PM (#38705193)
mosh is also dropping frames if it needs to. only happens when the network speed can't keep up with the data being sent through
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Re:Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Li... by cassianoleal on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @08:37AM (#38708502)
Yeah exactly. That's meant to make a laggy remote session feel a little less stuttery, which in many cases improves the experience.

It's not the same as doing that between 2 local layers.

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Re:Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Li... by em-bee on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @04:57PM (#38714184)
well, i have had local sessions hang because they had to much output, so i kind of see the benefit locally too.
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Re:Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Li... by cassianoleal on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:22AM (#38719553)
One terminal emulator with a bad implementation of buffering and outputting text doesn't make a different bad one good.
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