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Erm... What is it? I've clicked through several pages and still don't know, aside from the fact that apparently it extends the command line in some way. But I

Erm... What is it? I've clicked through several pages and still don't know, aside from the fact that apparently it extends the command line in some way. But I might just be missing something.

johns 10y ago
https://hyper.is https://hyper.is
jsjohnst 10y ago
It's a shell (think iTerm2 like) built using Electron (aka web technologies in a native wrapper).
- burke 10y ago
  It's not a shell, it's a terminal emulator. A shell is the program that handles the words you type into your terminal emulator.
  - jsjohnst 10y ago
    Mea culpa. Obviously knew that, just said the wrong thing. Thanks!
loansindi 10y ago
It's a terminal emulator that's configurable/extendable with JS, HTML and CSS.
teach 10y ago
According to their site[0], Hyper is a terminal emulator (like xterm) written 100% in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is released under the MIT License. This is definitely not obvious from the release notes. [0] https://hyper.is/ https://hyper.is/
tvon 10y ago
FWIW, if you get linked to a github release page then click on the project name at the top and you will get the main repository view with a short description (above the file list) and the full README below that.
bmurphy1976 10y ago
It says right at the top of the home page, it's a Terminal emulator, it just happens to be written with JavaScript and HTML. It would be nice of the title of the HN post said this (Hyper 1.0 Released, A Terminal Emulator built using Web Technologies), but it's easy to figure out once you go to the home or github page. I fault the OP for the poor title, not the project.
- thenomad 10y ago
  You're absolutely right - I missed that. BTW, it might just be the fact I have scripts blocked, but it doesn't appear to say that on the homepage at hyper.is - just the Github page.
rsp1984 10y ago
1000x This. I'm really sooo tired of projects being introduced through Github pages which have all kinds of non-descript change-lists and commit SHAs on them but lack even the most fundamental kind of information, like what the heck does it do, especially when there's about 100 other pieces of software out there with the same name. In this case the project does actually have a proper website (which btw. is nowhere mentioned on the Github page). Why not just link to the website instead? Is that somehow not cool enough any more?
- siddboots 10y ago
  > In this case the project does actually have a proper website (which btw. is nowhere mentioned on the Github page). Why not just link to the website instead? Is that somehow not cool enough any more? I can't sympathize at all with your sense of exasperation. I know you feel like you are arguing for a cause, but you're also being condescending. The purpose of this post isn't to introduce a project, but to announce a significant milestone version release. With that in mind, it makes a lot more sense to link to the announcement post on github. It includes plain language descriptions of the changes, download links, plenty of screenshots, and hardly any SHAs. The website is mentioned at the very top of the main github page, as well as in several other places.
  - rsp1984 10y ago
    The website is mentioned at the very top of the main github page, as well as in several other places. Yea, but it's mentioned nowhere on the page that was linked.

Erm... What is it? I've clicked through several pages and still don't know, aside from the fact that apparently it extends the command line in some way. But I might just be missing something.

johns 10y ago

https://hyper.is https://hyper.is

jsjohnst 10y ago

It's a shell (think iTerm2 like) built using Electron (aka web technologies in a native wrapper).

burke 10y ago
It's not a shell, it's a terminal emulator. A shell is the program that handles the words you type into your terminal emulator.
- jsjohnst 10y ago
  Mea culpa. Obviously knew that, just said the wrong thing. Thanks!

loansindi 10y ago

It's a terminal emulator that's configurable/extendable with JS, HTML and CSS.

teach 10y ago

According to their site[0], Hyper is a terminal emulator (like xterm) written 100% in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is released under the MIT License. This is definitely not obvious from the release notes. [0] https://hyper.is/ https://hyper.is/

tvon 10y ago

FWIW, if you get linked to a github release page then click on the project name at the top and you will get the main repository view with a short description (above the file list) and the full README below that.

bmurphy1976 10y ago

It says right at the top of the home page, it's a Terminal emulator, it just happens to be written with JavaScript and HTML. It would be nice of the title of the HN post said this (Hyper 1.0 Released, A Terminal Emulator built using Web Technologies), but it's easy to figure out once you go to the home or github page. I fault the OP for the poor title, not the project.

thenomad 10y ago
You're absolutely right - I missed that. BTW, it might just be the fact I have scripts blocked, but it doesn't appear to say that on the homepage at hyper.is - just the Github page.

rsp1984 10y ago

1000x This. I'm really sooo tired of projects being introduced through Github pages which have all kinds of non-descript change-lists and commit SHAs on them but lack even the most fundamental kind of information, like what the heck does it do, especially when there's about 100 other pieces of software out there with the same name. In this case the project does actually have a proper website (which btw. is nowhere mentioned on the Github page). Why not just link to the website instead? Is that somehow not cool enough any more?

siddboots 10y ago
> In this case the project does actually have a proper website (which btw. is nowhere mentioned on the Github page). Why not just link to the website instead? Is that somehow not cool enough any more? I can't sympathize at all with your sense of exasperation. I know you feel like you are arguing for a cause, but you're also being condescending. The purpose of this post isn't to introduce a project, but to announce a significant milestone version release. With that in mind, it makes a lot more sense to link to the announcement post on github. It includes plain language descriptions of the changes, download links, plenty of screenshots, and hardly any SHAs. The website is mentioned at the very top of the main github page, as well as in several other places.
- rsp1984 10y ago
  The website is mentioned at the very top of the main github page, as well as in several other places. Yea, but it's mentioned nowhere on the page that was linked.