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Hackathon and Challenge to build a new Terminal – $20k investment

19 pointsby jdprincealmost 5 years ago

9 comments

thameralmost 5 years ago
&gt; What would this look like in multiplayer mode?<p>Uh… no thank you.<p>&gt; How about chat<p>What are you on about? (also we already have `wall`)<p>This list of ideas is terrible and none of them make sense. It almost feels like one of these start-up name generators that mash up a bunch of buzzwords together.<p>Better auth support and all can be done completely independently of the terminal app, much like ssh-agent manages my keys and I don&#x27;t need to re-enter my password every time I connect somewhere. But that&#x27;s all done in the shell, not in the terminal app.<p>It looks like some money is available here for terminal developers? Instead of making something useless that no one wants or need, it would be a lot better to support people who actually build a useful app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iterm2.com&#x2F;donate.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iterm2.com&#x2F;donate.html</a>
pwinnskialmost 5 years ago
I genuinely don&#x27;t understand this project.<p>Use the right tool for the job. I chat using a chat program, and write code using a terminal. Pair programming involves taking turns, not multiple people typing into the same document at the same time.<p>Beating Terminal for speed might be harder than they realize.<p>Beating iTerm 2 for functionality might be harder than they realize.<p>Features neither of them include might be unwanted, but I guess good luck, and I&#x27;ll wait to see if any actual good ideas comes out of the hackathon?
zadjiialmost 5 years ago
I&#x27;d be curious to see how this plays out.<p>&gt; We expect real-time collaboration to dominate future markets as the pandemic runs its course and forces people and businesses online en masse<p>I&#x27;d think that the area for the easiest investment in this problem space wouldn&#x27;t be on the creation of a new terminal emulator (like iTerm2 or the Windows Terminal), but instead as a piece of software running on the remote server, something like tmux. Imagine instead a tmux that could allow multiple users to connect to it simultaneously, and drive different panes at the same time, or view the commands that another user is using in a given pane.<p>Then, regardless of what terminal emulator you choose, you&#x27;d be able to collaborate with your teammates, once you connect to the same server session.<p>When I think about a &quot;Terminal 2.0&quot;, I imagine something more like [this](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;terminal&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3121" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;terminal&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3121</a>). Ideally though, whatever protocol for rich feedback and content embedding wouldn&#x27;t be tightly coupled between the shell and the Terminal, which I don&#x27;t believe is something that [UpTerm](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;railsware&#x2F;upterm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;railsware&#x2F;upterm</a>) did well (though correct me if I&#x27;m wrong.)
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reeeallocalmost 5 years ago
I disagree on the point that the terminal needs innovation. Clis are what need the innovation. They&#x27;re rather inaccessible to anyone who&#x27;s never used vim or emacs, and modern workflows just give no incentives to switch to them.<p>Obviously if you&#x27;re already proficient in clis you&#x27;d never trade them for a gui, but if you&#x27;re proficient in a gui then why use a cli (for a reason other than bloat)?
LockAndLolalmost 5 years ago
I&#x27;d like a terminal that can finally actually show graphics. Not exactly sure what&#x27;s missing to do that since I have no idea about terminal internal. Maybe i3 is what I&#x27;m looking for. But, it would be great to have lynx that allows showing images or videos or simply streaming a video over SSH to a video player in my terminal.
lonelygirl15aalmost 5 years ago
I would absolutely love to have a Free terminal that had a feature set similar to SecureCRT. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vandyke.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;securecrt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vandyke.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;securecrt&#x2F;</a>
ckolkeyalmost 5 years ago
Modern collaborative terminal...so, tmux running in hyper (for electron goodness)? :)
oztenalmost 5 years ago
Work for free for us for 48 hours to explore this problem space.<p>5 best teams will win the chance to work for free for 1 month for us.<p>Best team we will crown the winner and let you keep 95% of your company.
contingenciesalmost 5 years ago
Thought this was a hardware project until I clicked the link. Hardware would provide serious scope for innovation. Software has been done.
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