When I first read about Hyperterm, I was pretty sure I wouldn't use a terminal emulator that uses a browser. Heavy-handed and a security nightmare. But eventua

When I first read about Hyperterm, I was pretty sure I wouldn't use a terminal emulator that uses a browser. Heavy-handed and a security nightmare. But eventually I head a podcast[^1] about it, and it started to make sense. It's nearly all about hackability. If you simply compare the number of people that are comfortable with adding UI elements to a native application in GTK or QT or whatnot, to those that are comfortable with enhancing a web application, it suddenly makes sense. [1]: https://changelog.com/213/ https://changelog.com/213/ Also the design of Hyper is one where everything goes through events, which you can intercept (and possibly re-emit) in extensions, so you don't even need nasty DOM hacking or text parsing to write extensions/plugins. So now I'm still skeptical, but I also see the upsides. I guess my next step should be to actually try it :-) At least when a Linux version becomes available...