SHshusson·Oct 23, 2017
Reminds me of https://github.com/zeit/hyper
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hyper
A terminal built on web technologies
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- xtermjs/xterm.js · linked in 3 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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Observed mentions: 2016-07-15 19:54:35 UTC to 2025-03-10 10:30:58 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 3 | 6 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourceswhat is the benefits over hyper https://github.com/zeit/hyper?
In Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on ElectronI work on the VS Code terminal/xterm.js[1].
Hyper which currently uses a fork of hterm, is in the process of moving over to xterm.js due to the feature/performance improvements we've made over the past 12 months. Hyper's 100% CPU/crash issue[2] for example should be fixed through some clever management of the buffer and minimizing changing the DOM when the viewport will completely change on the next frame.
I'd love to see the same set of tests on Hyper after they adopt xterm.js and/or on VS Code's terminal.
Related: I'm currently in the process of reducing xterm.js' memory consumption[3] in order to support truecolor without a big memory hit.
[1]: https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js
[2]: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/94
[3]: https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js/issues/791
In Terminal and shell performanceAlthough I'm not a huge fan of electron as well. I really like the creativity behind this project.
Btw, there is another electron-based popular emulator called hyper[1].
1: https://github.com/zeit/hyper
In Black Screen – Both a terminal emulator and an interactive shellIt already existed, you can see when we started shipping the integrated terminal pretty clearly from the contribution graph :) https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js/graphs/contributors
The project itself is a fork of the popular term.js which is now unmaintained, we've taken it quite far since then. Hyper are probably going to be making a switch once a few more kinks are worked out too https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1275
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