Hacker News macro:<p>Author: I wrote something for people who care more about features than performance.<p>People who care more about performance than features: I am personally offended that you created this.
Like pretty much everybody, I can't stand electron. But there's an interesting angle here, which is integrating the thing running in the terminal emulator (the shell) with the terminal itself. What I'd be most interested to see though would be a terminal pushing curses support forward, since I use a lot of curses-based applications.
How's the performance? GNU yes can produce output at more than 10GB/s. Does it cope well with that? How about lots of output that contains lots of escape sequences?
Tried it several months and left unimpressed. While by what the product aspires to be, it could be the IDE for command line, it's far from that. The only difference is essentially autocomplete, which is not intelligent (and probably can't be, nothing along the lines of parsing --help or man pages) and felt clunky when trying to edit part of a command and then try to get another "suggestion".<p>With zsh's built-in Ctrl+R it's at least possible to reduce list of suggestion and then travel up the history in those suggestions. While the more powerful fzf will give you the list of commands you've run in a selectable dropdown.<p>Upterm I think could be eliminating entire classes of tools which sometimes are unnecesary complex. Server automation could be part of pre-saved playbooks which are saved to your terminal history and can be easily brought up and run according to rules. Curl arguments could be arranged in a way where they are actually managable. Parsing --help and man pages (which is possible, there is a workable implementation in fish AFAIK). Upterm is in position to take on that functionality, but right now it's not much more than already mentioned hyper, but with custom handled prompt line.
While I'm a sucker for beautiful terminal emulators, functionally, I can't use it yet. Vim with scrolling using the fn keys doesn't work, seems to get frozen. Tmux doesn't work on it either. In theory, I'd be a user in the future if I can customize it to my liking the way I can with iTerm2, but for now, I won't be adopting it. Starred the repo, so I'll be on the lookout for future updates :)
Fish seems to work wonders for me. I've been using it for more than a year and it works well. I welcome new developments for sure.<p>Autocomplete that was a little bit laggy on zsh simple works super fast on fish. Other features are also very nice. I think people who might be interested in this, might find fish interesting.
I don’t get the hate for things built on electron. The technology is awesome.<p>Have some patience. It will eventually improve to the point where it is very low overhead and provides much richer experiences than we have in the terminal today.<p>Nobody is forcing you to use it today. Just be supportive because we want it’s future.
that autocompletion is great!<p>it would be awesome if you had some way to support more commands - especially if done in a more automatized way.. parsing the manuals (?)
what is the benefits over hyper <a href="https://github.com/zeit/hyper" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zeit/hyper</a>?
I've not been able to find an adequate terminal emulator for Windows.<p>I found Conemu clunky (maybe I needed to spend more time configuring it, but out of the box it was fairly ugly, and borked out under some curses applications and when using tmux), PuTTY/KiTTY to be lacking some important features (like tabs) -- ditto cmd.exe.<p>IMO there's a real gap in the Windows market, be that a new terminal emulator entirely, or improvements to Conemu making it more intuitive and user friendly.
I'm not going to spend hundreds of megabytes to display text on the screen. Not to mention the input latency this will have between keystrokes. The style of autocompletion shown can already be achieved with zsh - autocompletion should not be a function of your terminal emulator, but rather your shell.<p>However, this is all just my opinion and maybe there will be a load of users, me and people who share my opinions will slowly descend into obsolescence.
Tried to start it; blank page and no response...<p>as said terminal emulator should do one thing lightly. Tough the nice interface still made me download it.<p>Try building the same stuff with smtg else than electron ?